JOSHUA PAUL GAROON
Room 340A, Agriculture Hall | 1450 Linden Drive | Madison, WI 53706 [email protected] | (608) 890 0981
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2013 – Present Assistant Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2011 – 2013 Lecturer, University of Chicago Department of Health Studies & The College Coordinator of Research Programs, University of Chicago Urban Network
2009 – 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow W.K. Kellogg Health Scholars Program, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
EDUCATION
August 2009 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Health, Behavior & Society Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Thesis: “Animals I Never Saw”: Community-based natural resource management and health in rural northern Zambia (Adviser: Lori Leonard)
June 2004 Master of Public Health (MPH), International Health Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Capstone Project: Community participation and social marketing in malaria programming in rural Zambia. (Adviser: David Peters)
June 1998 Bachelor of Arts (AB), Biochemistry, Technology, and Public Policy Harvard College Graduated magna cum laude.
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
2017-2020 $92,467 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hatch Grant: “New Hunter Recruitment as an Approach to Reducing Deer Damage to Crops” (Grant WIS01944), Principal Investigator (PI)
2018-2019 $34,241 UW-Madison Graduate School Fall Competition Grant: “The Nature of Success: Conservation, Community, & Change in North Luangwa,” PI
2017-2018 $33,585 UW-Madison Graduate School Fall Competition Grant: “One Zambia, One Nation, One Health? Investigating One Health Initiatives in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley,” PI
2016-2018 $30,000 UW-Madison Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies: Thematic Research Cluster Grant, “Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and the History of Infectious Disease Research”; Co-PI
2016-2017 $60,000 UW-Madison Institute for Regional & International Studies (IRIS): Incubator Grant, “Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ & the History of Infectious Disease Research in Uganda”; Co-PI
Joshua Paul Garoon ([email protected])
2009 – 2012 $25,000 W.K. Kellogg Foundation: “Recovering a Sense of Place: Environment and Community in Treatment (ReSPECT) for Drug Addiction”; Lead Investigator
2010 – 2011 $5,000 Johns Hopkins University Urban Health Institute: “Recovering a Sense of Place: Environment and Community in Treatment (ReSPECT) for Drug Addiction”; Lead Investigator
2007 – 2009 $50,000 Procter & Gamble Fellowship (Doctoral Dissertation)
2006 – 2007 $20,000 J. William Fulbright Grant (Zambia; Doctoral Dissertation)
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Garoon, J.P. (Forthcoming). “These African stories”: Life, labor, and dying in northern Zambia. Social Science & Medicine.
Garoon, J.P., Engelman, M., Gitlin, L.N., & Szanton, S.L. (2016). Where does the neighborhood go? Social engagement, neighborhood, and aging in place in Baltimore City. Health & Place, 41, 58-86.
Furr-Holden, C.D.M., Milam, A.J., Nesoff, E.D., Garoon, J., Smart, M.J., Duncan, A., Warren, G. (2016). Triangulating Syndemic Services and Drug Treatment Policy: Improving Drug Treatment Portal Locations in Baltimore City. Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 10(2), 319-327.
Garoon, J.P., & Duggan, P.S. (2008). Discourses of disease, discourses of disadvantage: A critical analysis of national pandemic influenza preparedness plans. Social Science & Medicine, 67, 1133-1142.
Uscher-Pines, L., Duggan, P.S., Garoon, J.P., Karron, R.A., & Faden, R.R. (2007). Planning for an influenza pandemic: Social justice and disadvantaged groups. Hastings Center Report, 37(4), 32-39.
ARTICLES IN PREPARATION
Garoon, J.P. Conservation’s harvest? Seasonal hunger, imagined livelihoods, and the good life outside Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park.
Garoon, J.P., Scrivener, L., & Farquhar, S. “‘A neighbor, not an employer’: Anchors, engines, and eds-and-meds in East Baltimore
BOOK MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION
Garoon, J.P. The Nature of Success: Conserving and Developing Forms of Life in Zambia.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Garoon, J.P. (2006). Finding just cause. In Young Voices in Health Research. Geneva, Switzerland: Global Forum for Health Research and Lancet.
Garoon, J.P. (2005). The birds of sorrow: An analysis of facilitated small-group discussions among youth in the Trusted Partner IPC Project, Kenya. Washington, DC: PSI/AIDSMark.
Garoon, J.P. (2004). HIV/AIDS and the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor: A review. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs.
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SELECTED INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Garoon, J.P. (2017). Climate Engineering Governance & Global Health: Lessons from Smallpox Eradication. Climate Engineering Governance: Deepening the Dialogue. (International Workshop). September 14-15, 2017, Madison, WI.
Garoon, J.P. (2017). Putting on a clinic? Public health, public relations, & integrated conservation-development efforts around North Luangwa, Zambia. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 29, 2017, Santa Fe, NM.
Garoon, J.P. (2016). Johns Hopkins as landlord. Arrighi Center General Seminar on Practical Ethics: Pedagogy & the Capitalist University. November 11, 2016, Baltimore, MD.
Garoon, J.P. (2016). Where does the neighborhood go? (De)constructing Baltimore City and its health inequities. UW-Madison Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar, October 10, 2016, Madison, WI.
Garoon. J.P., Shelton, N. (2016). Green meat: Is there an agro-ecological alternative to industrial meat? (Roundtable). Scarborough Fare (2016 Joint Annual Meeting of ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS). June 24, 2016, Toronto, Canada.
Garoon, J.P. (2016). Dying with an ax in your hand. Big Stories + Close-Up Research: Health and Science in the African World Conference. April 15, 2016, Madison, WI.
Garoon, J.P. (2015). Conservation’s harvest? Seasonal hunger, imagined livelihoods, and good milile Outside Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 23, 2015, Chicago, IL.
Shelton, N., Holsman, R., Warnke, K., & Garoon, J.P. (2015). Hunting for a land ethic: Learning with locals, locavores, and Leopold in Wisconsin. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, August 9, 2015, Madison, WI.
Garoon, J.P. (2014). Developing a past to discipline the future: Conservation education on the edge of North Luangwa National Park. Invited lecture. Institute for African Development, Cornell University. November 13, 2014, Ithaca, NY.
Garoon, J.P. (2014) The Nature of success: Community-based natural resource management & Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park. UW-Madison African Studies Program, “Africa at Noon” October 22, 2014, Madison, WI.
Garoon, J.P. (2013). Exit, voice & loyalty? Considering conflict among participants in community-based participant research. 73rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. March 20, 2013, Denver, CO.
Garoon, J.P. (2012). Conservation’s harvest: Seasonal hunger, imagined livelihoods, and the good life outside Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park. Conference on Development, Health, and Humanitarian Crises in Post-Colonial Africa. Institute of African Studies, Emory University, April 20-21, 2012.
Garoon, J.P. (2012). Taking the edge off hunger? Community-based natural resource management, nutrition, and livelihood on the border of a Zambian national park. 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (with the Society for Medical Anthropology). March 30, 2012, Baltimore, MD.
Garoon, J.P. (2011). Sects in the City: Religious participation and social engagement among urban adults aging in place. 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. November 22, 2011, Boston, MA.
Garoon, J.P. (2011). Elephants in the millet: Poaching, place, and pursuing good milile in northern Zambia. 54th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. November 19, 2011, Washington, DC.
SELECTED HONORS & AWARDS
2015-2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Teaching & Learning Excellence Fellowship
2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities Faculty Development Seminar: “Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery”
2010 International Institute for Qualitative Methodology: High Commendation, Doctoral Dissertation
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2008 – 2009 JHSPH David & Elinor Bodian Scholarship (Doctoral Research Award)
2007 Cynthia & Robert Lawrence Scholarship (Doctoral Research Award)
2006 Health, Behavior & Society Distinguished Research Award (Doctoral Research Award)
2006 Global Forum for Health Research & Lancet Commended Essay
2005 JHSPH Baker-Reinke-Taylor Scholarship in International Health (Graduate Merit Award)
2004 – 2006 JHSPH International Health Departmental Scholarship (Doctoral Merit Award)
2004 Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society (Inducted)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2011-2013 University of Chicago Global Health Initiative
2009 – 2012 Core Member, Baltimore Place Matters (Equity Matters, Inc.)
2009 Coordinator, Baltimore Neighborhood Research Consortium
2006 – 2007 University of Zambia (UNZA) Research Associate
2005 Consultant, Trusted Partner Interpersonal Communication Project (IPC), PSI/AIDSMark (Funding: United States Agency for International Development)
2004 Consultant, Abidjan-Lagos Corridor HIV/AIDS Project, JHU Center for Communication Programs (Funding: World Bank)
2001 – 2003 Health Extension Agent, United States Peace Corps Community Action for Health Programme (Chipangali, Zambia)
TEACHING
Graduate Courses
Mapping Hot Spots: ‘One Health’ and Infectious Disease Research in Africa (Interdepartmental Seminar in African Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Developing Health: Transitions in Global Health & Development (Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago)
Undergraduate Courses
Sociology of International Development, Environment, and Sustainability (Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Public Health in Rural & Urban Communities (Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pursuing Social Justice in the City* (Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago)
Working for Justice in Contemporary Urban Space* (Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)
* Community-based learning courses
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INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2013 – Present Coordinator, Slesinger Lecture
2013 – 2017 CES/Sociology Minority Retention & Recruitment Committee
2016 – 2017 Global Health Certificate Review Committee
2016 Foreign Language & Area Studies Review Committee, African Studies Program
2014 – 2015 College of Agriculture & Life Sciences International Curriculum Committee
University of Chicago
2012 – 2013 Careers in Health Professions (invited) Health & Medicine Committee
2012 – 2013 University of Chicago Center for Teaching & Learning (invited) Experiential Learning Working Group
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, & SEMINARS ORGANIZED
2008 Research as Art, Art as Research Johns Hopkins University, March 24 – March 28
2007 Health & the City: Integrating Urban Planning and Public Health Johns Hopkins University, December 7
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer for American Ethnologist, Lancet, Social Science & Medicine, Environment and Planning: Government & Policy, African Studies Quarterly, & Chronic Disease Prevention. Review Board Member for American Journal of Health Behavior (Since 2005). Editorial Fellow for Progress in Community Health Partnerships (2009-2011); Student Assembly Board, American Public Health Association (Development Chair, 2004 – 2005)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Sociological Association, African Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Society for Medical Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology
SKILLS
Languages English (native), Nyanja (advanced), Bemba (advanced), French (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), Japanese (intermediate oral; basic written),
Data Analysis Quantitative analysis using Stata, M+, and AMOS; qualitative analysis using Atlas/ti, NVIVO, TAMS”
Technical & Programming HTML, CSS, Visual BASIC
Other RedR Logistics Certification FCC Radio Broadcast Certification
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