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Current appointment: Faculty of Arts (Global Studies) and Faculty of Applied Sciences (Global Non-Profit Management), Hochshule Osnabrück DE
Other faculty appointments have included Faculty of Liberal Arts on the Laurier Brantford Campus (Contemporary Studies); the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics (Policy and Law); and the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Social Justice and Community Engagement and Religion, Culture and Global Justice).
Senior leadership roles included Executive Director: Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation, Campus Change Leader: Ashoka, Director: Beyond Borders International Program (St. Jerome's).
Military and society
Issues in development
Alternative Economics
Social Entrepreneurship
Monograph
- 2011. 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. 256 pages.
Book Chapters
- 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.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 2024. Material Culture: The transformation of a New England cotton mill into a centre for learning and cultural preservation. Fashion Highlight, (4), 58–65. https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3061
- 2019. Learning and Teaching as Emergent, Standardized, and Radical Concepts. Religious Studies and Theology. Special double issue in honour of Michel Desjardins. 1-2(38): 80-86.
- 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 21st 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.
Technical and Research Reports
- 2025. Faith in the Forces and Religious Diversity, In their own voices. Available at: https://www.warmuseum.ca/in-their-own-voices/
- 2021. Post-Secondary Education in Canada. EURel-Canada, EURel Network, https://www.eurel.info/spip.php?rubrique1109, Jun 3.
- 2021. The Royal Canadian Chaplain Service. EURel-Canada, EURel Network, https://www.eurel.info/spip.php?article3875, May 5.
Ethics for Global Non-Profit Management (NP02); Defiant Economics (GS305); Technology and Globalization (GS321); Education and International Development (GS353); Social Entrepreneurship (SE200, 300 and 400); Issues in development (CT400k); Research Methocs (CT 200, GS 202, SJ 602).
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