Andrew Conroe graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in English and Religion, and from the University of Michigan with an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan.

He finds that the most rewarding part of teaching is helping students engage with new and challenging material on a variety of levels and through a variety of media, and to encourage them to connect the dots between the class material and issues that are pertinent to their own lives.  He believes that one of the most important aspects of the study of anthropology is a deepening of our understanding of the unfamiliar, and a simultaneous unsettling of the (seemingly) familiar.