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).

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.

His research interests traverse a number of areas in ethics, including ethical implications of climate change, the nature of promissory obligation and moral heroism. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include global challenges, logic, philosophy and sport. Fruh has a B.A. in philosophy and Spanish from Amherst College, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was a visiting assistant professor at Beloit College and a Thinking Matters postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

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.