James E. Garrett, Jr., is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance in the ASU W. P. Carey School of Business. He has taught at Purdue, Georgia State, William and Mary. He had an earlier career as an electrical engineer.

Upham is an eco-evolutionary biologist with core interests in how species ecologies have diversified through time and across the tree of life. He studies the phylogenetic ecology of wild mammals, especially desert rodents.