Nancy Guy Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, specializes in the study of the musics of Taiwan and China. The questions most prominent in her scholarly work involve issues of identity formation, the meaning and uses of expressive culture in electoral politics, and the ecocritical study of music. She spent the 2002-03 academic year conducting research in Taiwan with the support of a Fulbright Scholar Grant where she developed a new project dealing with music, place, and the environment. She published some of the results of this research in an article titled "Flowing down Taiwan's Tamsui River: Towards and Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination" in the spring/summer 2009 issue of Ethnomusicology, the flagship journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Guy continues to maintain her long-standing interest in Peking opera and has recently presented papers on the subject at international academic conferences. Her book Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan (University of Illinois Press, 2005, http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s05/guy.html) won the ASCAP Béla Bartók Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology and it was also named an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2006" by Choice, the review magazine of the Association for College and Research Libraries.

Other publications to her credit include articles in TDR: The Drama Review (2008) Ethnomusicology (1999 and 2002), Perfect Beat (2001), Asian Theatre Journal (1990 and 1995), ACMR Reports (1998 and 2000), Comparative Drama (2001/2002), and Zhongguo Yishu Yanjiuyuan Yanjiushengbu (Graduate School Academic Journal of the Academy of Arts of China, Beijing, 1993), among others. Her article "Trafficking in Taiwan Aboriginal Voices" appears in Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials (edited by Sjoerd R. Jaarsma, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002). In addition, Guy has contributed articles to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (revised edition), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (East Asia volume), and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. In addition to two Fulbright grants (1991-92, 2002-03), her field research in Taiwan and China has Guy also been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Republic of China Ministry of Education, and the UCSD Academic Senate, Committee on Research. Other awards to her credit include fellowships from the American Musicological Society (AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Taiwan-based Koo's Foundation and Hsio-De Foundation.