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Joanne Benham Rennick

Joanne Benham Rennick

Undergraduate Advisor | Associate Professor, Global Studies

Interdisciplinary scholar with extensive regional and international experience in social and economic development and capacity building education. I have served in academic and senior administration roles at the University of Waterloo and Laurier and held appointments on the Brantford Campus, in the Faculty of Arts, and at the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics. I led Laurier's strategic bid to become a ChangeMaker Campus. As the Director of Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, the Campus Change Leader, and Executive Director of the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship, I developed extensive curricular and co-curricular social innovation programming across Laurier. Prior to my academic career, I spent a decade as a project manager, consultant and business owner in the Information Technology sector.

Monograph

Religion in the Ranks: Belief and religious experience in the Canadian Forces. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire. 224 pages.

Edited Volume

2013. The World is my Classroom: International learning and Canadian higher education. Joanne Benham Rennick and Michel Desjardins, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Foreword by Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger. 256 pages.

Book Chapters (Peer reviewed)

2021. Paradoxical Pilgrims: Remaking Religion in the Modern World. Walking the Camino de Santiago: Essays on Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century. Tiffany Trotman, Ed. Auckland: McFarland Press.
2016. Co-author with Tim Donais. From Fragility to Resilience: Social innovation at the nexus of conflict and development in Africa. 61-76. Security, Education, and Development in Contemporary Africa. Izarali, Masakure and Shizha, Eds. New York NY: Routledge.
2014. Canada. Religion in the Military Worldwide. 45-57. Ron E. Hassner, Ed. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
2013. Co-author with Michel Desjardins. Towards a Pedagogy of Good Global Citizenship. The World is my Classroom: International learning and Canadian higher education. 10-28. Joanne Benham Rennick and Michel Desjardins, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2013. Canadian Values, Good Global Citizenship, and Service Learning in Canada: A socio-historical analysis. The World is my Classroom: International learning and Canadian higher education. 36-73. Joanne Benham Rennick and Michel Desjardins, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2013. Co-author with student Cathleen DiFruscio. Culture Shock, Cognitive Dissonance, or Cognitive Negotiation? Terms matter in service learning programs. The World is my Classroom: International learning and Canadian higher education. 100-132. Joanne Benham Rennick and Michel Desjardins, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

2019. Learning and Teaching as Emergent, Standardized, and Radical Concepts. Religious Studies and Theology. 1(38): TBD.
2015. Learning that Makes a Difference: Pedagogy and practice for learning abroad. Teaching and Learning Inquiry. 3(2): 71-88.
2013. Is Religion a Force for Good? Reformulating the discourse on religion and international development. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 34(2): 175-188.
2013. Canadian Values and Military Operations in the 21^st Century. Armed Forces and Society. 39 (3): 511-530.
2012. The New Mission Field? International service learning in Canadian universities. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education. Rebecca Tiessen and Marc Epprecht, Eds. 2 (1): 91-107.