Drew University Professor Awarded Prestigous Fellowship

A Drew University history professor has been named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, one of 173 inners from more than 3,000 applicants.

Edward Baring, assistant professor of modern European intellectual and cultural history at Drew University, was awarded the fellowship, which is intended for “men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts,” according to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was also recently named a 2015 Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies, the university said.

“This will allow me to finish the research and write the book,” Baring said of the Guggenheim Fellowship. “It’s wonderful to be able to have the time to finish this project. Drew’s been really supportive of my research projects.”

Baring’s book, which has taken him across Europe for research, explores the phenomenology philosophical movement and how it transformed from a parochial German school into a truly “continental philosophy” in the first half of the 20th century, Drew University said.

Baring is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Harvard University and he taught at Princeton University before joining Drew. He has also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, a Franklin Research Grant and two Drew University research grants.

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