Professor Conroy, a four time teaching award winner, has been teaching people how to work with and manage farm animals for 37 years at the college level. Broadly trained in agriculture, he teaches 8 different Animal Science courses at the University of New Hampshire, with CREAM being his most well-known course. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am04OHObpP4&list=PLIV5m_SmQxYSPMd-BLJHn9VY6d357-e5N His teaching focus at UNH is primarily with dairy cattle, but he is also well versed in managing and handling goats, sheep, swine, beef cattle, and poultry. He has worked for decades with 4-H and FFA youth judging cattle and other livestock, as well as helping them develop their animal handling, training, showmanship and live animal judging skills. In support of youth and college students interested in judging he has written an OER textbook on Dairy Cattle Judging and Evaluation available free on-line - see link below in publications
A two-time Fulbright Scholar, his teaching, research and consulting have taken him to 20 times to Africa, where he has worked in Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, DR Congo and Rwanda. In 2023 he began teaching a course called Livestock and Wildlife in Namibia. This writing intensive Discovery World Cultures course combines weekly lectures in Durham, with an embedded faculty-led study abroad component in Namibia over spring break. Students explore the economic, geographic, scientific, cultural and practical aspects of livestock and wildlife management in Namibia.
Dr. Conroy's work in Africa has also led to mentoring many UNH undergraduate students in research abroad, specifically on topics related to conflicts with wildlife and agriculture. Students he has worked with have done research in Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Scotland, Ireland, and Australia. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CmWrTUTUA
Finally, he is one of the foremost academic authorities on draft oxen in the world having written 4 books, numerous book chapters, nearly 100 articles and consulted for numerous Charitable and Government organizations, as well as the movie industry on the use and training of oxen. See: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/drew-conroy/oxen/9781612128009/?lens=storey orhttps://extension.unh.edu/resource/nh-4-h-working-steer-manual and https://youtu.be/Jr9c41YCck0?si=ATlYIOdSVHha-b52 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul2PFDdeJ2k
