He is the director of the Education and Career Equity Lab and focuses his scholarship on issues of economic and racial justice. Within this broader area, Dr. Garriott's work focuses on social class and classism, first-generation college students, and social cognitive career theory. Nationally, Dr. Garriott's professional roles include serving is Associate Editor for the Journal of Career Assessment, Communications Officer for the Society for Vocational Psychology, and Vice Chair of the American Psychological Association Committee on Socioeconomic Status, which focuses on psychology's contribution to the understanding of SES and the lives and well-being of the economically marginalized: http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/committee/index.aspx.