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Rahima-Schwenkbec

Rahima Schwenkbeck

Director of Media, Business development

Bio

Dr. Rahima Schwenkbeck is a seasoned researcher with experience and publications in communal societies, marketing, business history, environmental issues, economics and US history. She has served as the Director of Media, focusing on digital and print publishing, for an international, UN-recognized policy studies organization for over a decade and offers a great deal of experience. She has numerous publications, conference presentations and has gratefully received several awards and grants for her work.

  • PhD, George Washington University, USA
  • MA, California State University, USA
  • MA, University of Minnesota, USA
  • BS, University of Minnesota, USA
  • English (native)
  • Wick, Carol, MS; Venovski, Saso. (2023) Estimating the Local Impact of a Greek Charter School. Socrates Academy, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. 
  • Wick, Carol, and Parada, Ariadna. (2021) Estimating the Local Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Value of Domestic Violence Programming: A Study of Clark County, Nevada in 2019.
  • Wick, Carol and Olive, Megan. (2021) Children’s Home Society of Florida Pilot Project: Enhanced Domestic Violence Services Initial Assessment Summary and Recommendations.
  • Wick, Carol and Parada, Ariadna. (2020) National Assessment on the State of Fundraising for Domestic Violence Organizations.
  • Wick, Carol and Parada, Ariadna. (2020) Estimating the Local Impact of Intimate Partner Violence and the Value of Domestic Violence Programming: A Study of Collier County, Florida in 2018.
  • Navarro, Jordano, Jasinski, Jana, and Wick, Carol. (2014) “Working for Change: Empowering Employees and Employers to “Recognize, Respond, and Refer” for Intimate Partner Abuse.” Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 29(3), 224-239.
  • Wick, Carol, Apple, Marlo, Rivers-Cochran, Julie Ann, and Massey, Chelsea. Across the Continuum: Recommendations on Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence in Florida. (2014).
  • Rickey (Wick), Carol. (1990) “Client-Therapist Distance as a Determinant of Therapeutic Resistance: An Empirical Analysis.”
  • The Business of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Architecture of Communal Societies in the 1960s and 1970s. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2021.
  • “Growth, Ideals and Scarcity: The Complexity of Financing the Twin Oaks Community.” Communal Societies 39.1 (2019): 18-40.
  • “Labor, Accounting and Abundance: Clashing Values of Economic Idealism and Collective Wellbeing in Twin Oaks Community, 1967-1979” in The Folklorist in the Marketplace. ed. Willow Mullins. Logan, UT: The Utah State University Press (2018).
  • “Informal economies” The Social Science of War. Ed. Paul Joseph. Thousand Oaks, CA., SAGE Publications, Inc. January 2017: 867-870.
  • Interviews. (n.d.). Rahima Schwenkbeck, PhD. https://www.rahimaschwenkbeck.com/interviews.html

  • “How We Say Goodbye: Advertising Mourning Culture in America.” Presenter and Organizer. Organization of American Historians Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA: 2024.

  • “Uneasy Spaces: Capitalism, Race, and Pleasure.” Chair and Commentator. Organization of American Historians Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA: 2023.

  • “Selling the End: The Business of Funerals During Pandemics.” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference. Boston, MA: March 2022.

  • “Barriers to Utopia: Membership Challenges Faced by Communal Societies.” Communal Studies Association Annual Conference. Online. September 2021.

  • Co-Chair, Marketing and Communications Committee, Organization of American Historians