Faculty Focus: Zairong Xiang, assistant professor of comparative literature, discusses his work curating “Why Collectivity,” one the main exhibitions in the Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, and his plans to build a lively, artistic atmosphere on the Duke Kunshan campus.
As divisional chairs, Kolleen Guy, William Parsons, Jr. and Kai Huang lead faculty recruitment, performance reviews and mentoring in their respective areas: Arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural and applied sciences...
Since Duke Kunshan launched its undergraduate program in 2018, more than two dozen Duke University faculty have traveled to China to teach classes at DKU – and even more have visited the campus. Many of them came away impressed...
Meet the Dean: The humanities professor and Daoism scholar talks about disrupting traditional academic models, and how global issues like climate change and Covid-19 require 21st-century solutions, not 19th-century thinking.
Chemistry professor Mark Spaller has received praise from undergraduate students for his stimulating class sessions, in which he strives to provide a foundation for future learning and show how complicated subject matter connects to everyday life.
Forty-four members of the third faculty cohort hired for Duke Kunshan’s undergraduate program completed a week of workshops and group discussions on cutting-edge curriculum development in May as part of the Learning Innovation Fellowship (LIF)...
China in the World, a common core course for first-year students at Duke Kunshan, has won an award for teaching innovation in the 2020 Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards (ATLAS) after the faculty successfully moved instruction online in response to Covid-19...
In the spring 2019 semester, Zach Fredman , assistant professor of history at Duke Kunshan, introduced a role-playing game (RPG) in his Methods of Historical Research class to help students better understand the complex dynamics and diplomacy at...
