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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)
  • 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