As a critical applied linguist working in global higher-education institutions that have an English medium of instruction, her main research interests lie in translingual practice, cultures of learning, and culturally and linguistically responsive teaching, as well as the interplay of discourses that circulate in these domains. From 2015 to 2017, she was the founding academic director of the American Language Institute at NYU Shanghai and oversaw the expansion of the Institute into the NYU School of Professional Studies.

A filmmaker and film historian, his main interest is the complex relationship between local traditions and global phenomena. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include screenwriting, documentary film and moving image production. His 20 years of professional experience span the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, and he has sold two feature-length screenplays to production companies. His work has received international film awards, including at the Hot Docs Documentary Festival, and has been shown on PBS in the U.S. Henderson has an M.F.A.

His research focuses on the nature of human agency and action, which he investigates from various systematic and historical vantage points including the philosophy of action, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics; the history of analytic philosophy, especially Anscombe; classical Greek philosophy, especially Aristotle; and classical Chinese philosophy.

Her research interests include power, religion, sectarianism, and gender in the Middle East. She has written about Muslim-Christian relations in contemporary Egypt, and her current research examines how the 2011 Egyptian Arab Uprisings have affected the sectarian relations from an intersectional approach, or the consideration of class, gender, and geography. Trained as an ethnographer, she has conducted field research in Cairo, Egypt, from 2006.

Her main research interest is on how both the consumption and production of food and drink shape national memory and identity. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include global history and areas related to food systems and the environment. She has won numerous awards for teaching innovation and is the author of the prizewinning book, "When Champagne became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity." Guy has a B.A. in history and English from North Central College and a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Pengzhan Guo's research project covers methodology and applications in machine learning and data mining. He is especially interested in parallel computing, human resource management and mobile computing. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include linear algebra and machine learning. He has published papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), and the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).

An applied microeconomist, her primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health and labor economics. Her research centers on explaining socioeconomic disparities, understanding preference formation, identifying optimal economic behaviors for individuals and society, and understanding how policy can help achieve these ends. After working as a research specialist at Princeton University, Industrial Relations Section, she started a Ph.D. program at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2011. She also interned at the U.N.

His research focus is chemical transport and fate in a multimedia environment. He is especially interested in nutrient retention in soil, groundwater, river and lake by the coupled hydrological and biogeochemical processes. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include environmental science, biogeochemistry, Earth science, and ecology. He has published articles in prestigious journals and served as UNC representative for the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science. He has also served on proposal review panels for the U.S. National Science Foundation.

A theoretical physicist by training, Pascal Grange is interested in quantitative models of systems with many degrees of freedom. His current field of research is the statistical physics of out-of-equilibrium systems (this class of systems includes living systems). His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include calculus and probability. His work has appeared in leading academic journals including Nuclear Physics B, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?(PNAS) and Journal of Physics A (Mathematical and Theoretical).