Interim Director

Contact Information:

Office: 367 Business Administration Bldg.
Phone: (419) 372-2457
Email: cdrennen@bgsu.edu

Education:

• Ed.D. Leadership Studies (currently enrolled), BGSU
• M.A., Economics, BGSU, 1997
• B.S., Business Administration, BGSU, 1986

Publications and Research Interests:

• “The Canadian Economy,” co-authored, in Patrick James and Mark J. Kasoff, eds. Canadian Studies in the New Millennium. (University of Toronto Press, 2008), 223-244.
• "Trucking Services under the NAFTA," North American Economic and Financial Integration. Alan M. Rugman, ed. Amsterdam; London: Elsevier/JAI, 2004, pp 263-282.
• "Heavy Traffic: Deregulation, Trade and Transformation in North American Trucking" by Daniel Madar, in The American Review of Canadian Studies, Summer 2003, pp. 277-78.
• "Québec: A Foreign yet Familiar Export Destination," in Going Global: an Export-led Development Newsletter for AEP Industrial Customers, August 1999.
• Canadian Economy
• Canadian-U.S. Economic Relations
• Border Policy
• Teaching Canada in the U.S.

Conference Activities/Seminars:

• Ohio and NAFTA: Symbolic Politics, Benefits and Problems,” co-presented at Topical Tuesday Series, Way Public Library, Perrysburg,Ohio. April 2008.
• Ohio Freight Conference; Panel Moderator, “Planning for a New Detroit River Crossing” and “Canada/US Border Crossing Perspective,” Toledo, Ohio. September 2007.
• “Best Practices for Grants Writing” presented at ACSUS Biennial Conference, Toronto, ON, November 2007.
• “The Economic Importance of Canada to Ohio,” Invited Keynote, TMACOG Board of Trustees, Toledo, Ohio. December, 2007. 

• “The Grants-Writer’s Perspective” presented at ACSUS Biennial Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2005.

• “Growing Under Glass: Analyzing the Greenhouse Industry in Canada and the U.S.” presented at ACSUS Biennial Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 2005.

• Ohio-Canadian Studies Roundtable, 1996-97, 2000, 2002-2007.
• Canada-U.S. Business Association (CUSBA), “Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships in the Department of Homeland Security,” Detroit, Michigan, attended May 2005.
• Border Initiatives Roundtable (BIR), co-developed and arranged in collaboration with the University of Michigan Center for International Business Education, Detroit, MI, March 2005.
• "Creating Awareness and Building Loyalty in the Canadian Studies Community," presented at the Kentucky Canadian Studies Roundtable, Lexington, KY, October 2004.
• "Trade, Traffic, and Threats at the Border" presented at Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS Biennial Conference, Portland, OR, November 2003.
• Atlantic Canada Faculty Institute, Newfoundland & Labrador, June 2003.
• "Trucking Services Under the NAFTA" presented at Canada-United States Business Conference, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 2003.
• Québec Summer Seminar, Québec City, Québec, August 2002.
• Ontario-Ohio Community Economic Development Workshop, Windsor, ON, May 2002.
• "Toward an Open Market in Trilateral Trucking: The Ultimate Road Trip" presented at Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Biennial Conference, San Antonio, TX, November 2001.
• "Cross Border Direct Investment & Merger Activity" presented at Midwest Association for Canadian Studies (MWACS) Biennial Conference, Ypsilanti, MI, October 2000.
• Canada-U.S. Law Institute Conference, Case Western Reserve University, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004-7.
• "Canadian Productivity in the 1990s" presented at ACSUS Biennial Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November  1999.
• "Determinants of the Location of Canadian-Owned Enterprises Within the United States" presented at ACSUS Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 1997.

Professional Affiliations:

• Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).
• Association for Canadian Studies.
• Midwest Association for Canadian Studies (MWACS).

Honors and Awards:

• Distinguished Thesis Award at BGSU, 1997, which recognizes the best master's degree paper of the year for her thesis entitled "Determinants of the Location of Canadian-Owned Enterprises Within the United States."