Kolleen Guy

Kolleen M. Guy is a historian of transnational culture whose research examines how ideas, commodities, and displaced communities move across borders to create new forms of identity and belonging. Her scholarship spans global food history, wine studies, and the history of human rights and statelessness. She is the co-editor of Statelessness after Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific in the Second World War (2025), which extends Hannah Arendt’s insights by illuminating the global dimensions of statelessness and the emotional and political strategies refugees forged in Asia and the Pacific. Her award-winning book When Champagne Became French established her early contributions to food and identity studies, and her current monograph, “The Taste of Landscape: Food and the Meaning of Place in Global Markets,” traces how terroir evolved from a French cultural idiom into a global framework shaping food regulation, authenticity, and environmental governance. Together with her other manuscript project, “The Parapolitics of Empathy,” these works reflect her commitment to understanding how cultural practices, moral concepts, and material landscapes shape memory, community, and global interconnection.

Guy’s teaching philosophy is grounded in the conviction that rigorous scholarship and transformative pedagogy are mutually reinforcing. She teaches widely in transnational history, including courses on refugees and statelessness, historical methods, global food systems, and the cultural representation of war. Her classes emphasize inquiry-driven learning, close engagement with archives and material culture, reflective writing, and experiential fieldwork in museums and memory sites. Drawing directly from her research, she guides students in examining how historical narratives are constructed, how communities respond to rupture, and how ethical and political ideas take shape across borders. Known for her mentorship and interdisciplinary teaching, she inspires students to become analytical thinkers and globally engaged scholars.

Guy received her Ph.D. in History from Indiana University Bloomington. She earned her M.A. in History from Northern Illinois University in 1989 and her B.A. in History and English from North Central College in 1985. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, she served for over two decades on the faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she held the Ricardo Romo Distinguished Professorship in the Honors College.

盖科琳是一位跨国文化史学者，其研究关注思想、商品和流离失所的群体如何跨越国界，从而形成新的身份认同和归属感。她的研究领域包括全球食物史、葡萄酒研究以及人权史和无国籍历史。她是即将出版的《阿伦特之后的无国籍状态：二战期间中国与太平洋地区的欧洲难民》（Statelessness after Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific in the Second World War，2025年）一书的联合主编，该书基于汉娜·阿伦特的洞见，阐明无国籍状态的全球维度以及难民在亚洲和太平洋地区形成的情感和政治策略。她的获奖著作《当香槟成为法国的象征》（When Champagne Became French）奠定了她在食物与身份研究领域的早期贡献。而她的正在撰写的专著《风土的味道：全球市场中食物与地方意义》（The Taste of Landscape: Food and the Meaning of Place in Global Markets）探讨了“风土”（terroir）如何从一种法国文化表达演变成全球框架，影响了食品监管、真实性与环境治理。此外，她的另一个书稿项目《同情的边缘政治》（The Parapolitics of Empathy）与上述研究共同反映了她对文化实践、道德观念和物质环境如何塑造记忆、共同体及全球互联性的深刻关注。

盖科琳的教学理念建立在学术严谨性与变革性教育相互促进的信念之上。她教授跨国历史领域的广泛课程，包括有关难民与无国籍状态、历史研究方法、全球食品体系以及战争文化表征的课程。她的课程强调以探究为驱动的学习方式，注重与档案资料和物质文化的紧密互动，反思性写作以及在博物馆和记忆场所中的实践性田野学习。基于自身的研究背景，她引导学生探究历史叙事的构建方式、社区如何应对破裂，以及伦理与政治观念如何跨越边界形成。作为一位以指导能力和跨学科教学闻名的学者，她激励学生成为具有批判性思维能力的全球化学者。

盖科琳获得了印第安纳大学布鲁明顿分校的历史学博士学位。她于1989年获得北伊利诺伊大学的历史学硕士学位，并于1985年获得北中央学院的历史和英语学士学位。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，她在德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校的荣誉学院任教超过二十年，并曾担任该学院的 Ricardo Romo 杰出讲席教授。