His research examines topics in environmental history and the history of science. He is especially interested in climate history and is completing a project on climate change debates in the late 19th-century United States. At Duke Kunshan, his teaching interests include U.S. history, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and geography. He has published articles in Environment and History, and History of Meteorology. Giacomelli has a B.A. in history and geography from Middlebury College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Cornell University.

As a comparative political economy scholar, Paula Ganga uses her knowledge of advanced statistical methodologies, seven languages and travel to over 40 countries to examine the?economic outcomes of political institutions,?state-market interactions, the political actors driving the process and the inequalities between the winners and losers of this process. Ganga is particularly interested in populism and economic nationalism, inequality and economic development, energy and environmental policy, corruption and transparency, and democratic backsliding.

Before joining Duke Kunshan, she was the John T. Herwick, M.D. Professor of Chemistry and associate provost at Washington and Lee University, where she also served as associate dean of the college from 2012 to 2017. She has also served as a visiting research scientist at Dupont, Stanford University, the University of St. Andrews and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (AgroParisTech). France has a B.Sc. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she did undergraduate research under 2001 Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless, and an M.Sc.

Dr. Field (B.A. Dartmouth College, Ph.D. Columbia University) is a specialist in Chinese and East Asian languages, cultures, and history, with an expertise in the history of Shanghai.

Her research focus is motivation and persistence for learning Chinese as a second/foreign language. She teaches Chinese language courses at Duke Kunshan. She is a journal reviewer for K-12 Chinese Language Teaching and Foreign Language Annals.

Dr. Pablo Encinas Arquero's research and professional interests include comparative education and second language acquisition. He is particularly interested in the factors involved in cross-cultural evaluation of teaching quality and in the acquisition of vocabulary in a foreign language. Before coming to Duke Kunshan University, Encinas Arquero worked at the University of Plymouth, the University of Nottingham, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University and in the Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University, where he was an associate professor in Spanish and English Linguistics.

His research interests are in the general areas of dynamical systems and mathematical physics, with the main focus being on the geometry of integrable Hamiltonian systems and the dynamics of coupled oscillator networks. He has published a monograph on integrable Hamiltonian systems and his research has appeared prestigious journals.

His research interests focus on the intersection of second language pedagogy and peacebuilding, peace education, and trauma symptoms and healing. Eberly has an M.A. in teaching English to speakers of other languages from Azuza Pacific University and is finishing an M.A. in conflict transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU). He has taught at EMU and several universities in China.

He is a film and media scholar who works on cinematic crossings between Japan, East Asia, and the United States. His first monograph, Sing Your Way to Heaven, describes the collisions between aesthetics, ideology, and pleasure in musical films produced in Imperial Japan during the so-called Fifteen Years' War (1931-45). Two articles from this project have been published: Imaginary Conquests: Folktales, Film, and the Japanese Empire in Asia (Ex-Position 42), and Whose Blue Heaven? Musicality in the Early Japanese Talkies (The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 10/1).

Her research interests include employability in the English-language curriculum, socio-pragmatics and assessment. She currently completing the Cambridge DELTA qualification, specializing in ELT management in higher education. She has been based in China for more than 10 years and has extensive intercultural management experience. Previously, she led a team of over 30 faculty to deliver business English degree programs in Shanghai. She has been based in China for more than 10 years and has extensive intercultural management experience.