Ralph A. Litzinger, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He received 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Howard D. Johnson Award for his teaching excellence in and outside the classroom. A former director of Duke’s Asia/Pacific Studies Institute, education programs in China and India, and core member of the DKU global liberal arts curriculum committee, he has served Duke and DKU.
Caio Yurgel, Associate Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. He is the author of Landscape’s Revenge: The Ecology of Failure in Robert Walser and Bernardo Carvalho (DeGruyter, 2018), and the collection of essays A Estética do Espetáculo: Cinco Teses em Walter Benjamin (NEA, 2013), winner of the prestigious Mario Pedrosa Award for Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture.
Yueqi Dou, undergraduate student at Duke Kunshan University, majoring in Cultural Anthropology, class of 2026. Her academic interests center on the intersections of contemporary arts, localized knowledge, and public engagement. She has conducted fieldwork in rural and urban China, exploring topics such as temple transformations, cultural tourism, and grassroots participation in online protests.
