Guido Caniglia earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Florence in 2010 and has worked in various academic communities, mainly in Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Since 2011, he has been a postdoctoral researcher for the Global Classroom project, a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU) and Leuphana University in Germany. Since September 2010, Guido has also been pursuing a second PhD at the Center for Biology and Society at ASU, with the aim of integrating his philosophical training with approaches from the historical and social study of science. The goal of the Global Classroom is to develop a new model for liberal arts education that pivots around transdisciplinary, intercultural, and research-based learning. This educational experiment is part of a broader movement that aims to rethink the overall curriculum of liberal arts education in the twenty-first century. Besides teaching several modules in the Global Classroom, Guido coordinates and organizes the project’s wider activities in close connection with the rest of the instructors. In their experimental classes, they deal with urban systems in relation to their sustainability, addressing the topic using tools and methods, among others, from history, philosophy, sociology, ethics, and sustainability sciences. The Global Classroom instructors aim to facilitate international, collaborative projects among students from different educational and cultural backgrounds. The questions that drive Guido’s research relate to the ways in which scientists produce, articulate, and modify knowledge about the evolution and functioning of complex, hierarchical, social structures—from urban systems to animal societies. In his research into the history and philosophy of the life sciences, Guido focuses on investigations into the evolutionary pathways that led to the emergence of social behaviors in social insects (wasps, bees, and ants), one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. He looks specifically at some pivotal moments and personalities that have shaped our understanding of social life, in particular the life of social wasps, which provide an important model system for such understanding. Guido mainly concentrates on Leo Pardi’s work in Italy from the 1940s; Bill Hamilton and the origins of sociobiology in the late 1960s and early 1970s; Mary Jane West-Eberhard and the beginning of evolutionary developmental biology in the 1970s and 1980s; and Gro Amdam and Robert Page’s lab in current molecular sociobiology. Guido’s goal is to write an epistemological history of studies about the evolution of social behaviors across national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.