Hirt is a historian specializing in the American West, environmental history, environmental policy, and sustainability studies.

Minteer is a scholar of environmental history and philosophy who writes about wilderness and conservation in the American West.

Murphree’s research examines animal behavior, the human-animal bond, and the role of animal cognition and societal values in shaping conservation, welfare, and management of animals in captivity and the wild.

Tebeau is an urban, public, & digital historian who studies landscape, place, & historical memory; he's written about risk, cities, and monuments; he possesses expertise in curation, oral history & public memory.

Jones is a historian of energy, economics, and environment. He has published on the dynamics of energy transitions and economic theories of growth.

Dr. Travis J. Cook is a historian of the United States West whose research and teaching examine environmental history, Indigenous sovereignty, and material systems.

Harper is a historian of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is working on the history of freshwater fish, angling, and settler colonialism in the Southern Hemisphere.

Ph.D. Candidate at ASU studying human-animal relationships, primarily in the context of zoos and unhoused pet ownership.