Joachim Rennstich, PhD

•  Apr 2007 
  Fordham Faculty Fellowship
•  Apr 2007 
  Deans’ Initiative for Development of Service Learning Courses, Fordham University
•  Apr 2006 
  Fordham Faculty Research Grant
•  Apr 2006 
  Fordham Faculty Challenge Grant
•  Mar 2005 
  Nomination for Helen Dwight Reid Award, awarded annually by the American Political Science Associati
•  Mar 2004 
  Katherine C. Greenough Dissertation Award for the best dissertation completed in the Political Scie
•  Mar 2004 
  Nomination for the Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award, granted by the Science, Technology and Envi

Dr. Joachim K. Rennstich (Associate Partner) has nearly 20 years of experience as a communication expert and scholar. After starting his first PR and advertisement firm just out of high school, he was a Professor at the Political Science departments of Temple University and Fordham University, with degrees from the University of Göttingen (Germany/dipl.soc.) and Indiana University (Bloomington, IN/M.A./Ph.D.). He is an expert in the areas of digital technology, innovation and economic development, and long-term globalization processes and has published widely on these topics, e.g., as the author of The Making of a Digital World : The Evolution of Technological Change and How It Shaped Our World (2008, New York: Palgrave). Rennstich served on the board of the Center for International Policy Studies (a Think Tank at Fordham University) and as co-founder and -director of The Center for the Study of Long-term Change in World History (LTC).

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