Edward Baring
History Department,
Drew University,
36 Madison Ave.
Madison, NJ 07940
40 Western Way,
Princeton, NJ 08540
ebaring@drew.edu
(609) 216-2461
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
September 2010- Present
Assistant Professor of Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History, Drew University
September 2009- July 2010
Lecturer at the Writing Program, Princeton University
EDUCATION
2003-2009, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Ph.D. in Modern European Intellectual History, June 2009.
Dissertation: “The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1946-1967,”
Committee: Professors Peter Gordon (advisor), David Blackbourn, Judith Surkis, Sean Kelly.
(Awarded the Harold K. Gross Prize by the Department of History, Harvard University, for the
dissertation, which “gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research.”)
A.M. in History, June 2005.
With specialization in: Modern Intellectual History, Modern German History, Early Modern
Intellectual History, History and Philosophy of Physics.
1999-2003, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
B.A. (hons.) Double First in Mathematics and History, June 2003.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968, Ideas in Context, Cambridge University
Press, 2011.
Articles
“Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cercle d’Epistémologie; or, How to be a Good Structuralist,”
forthcoming in Knox Peden and Peter Hallward eds., Concept and Form: The Cahiers pour
l'analyse and Contemporary French Thought, vol. 2, London: Verso, 2012.
“Humanist Pretensions: Catholics, Communists, and Sartre’s Struggle for Existentialism in PostWar France,” in Modern Intellectual History, vol. 7, Number 3, November 2010. pp. 581-609
“Liberalism and the Algerian War: The Case of Jacques Derrida,” Critical Inquiry vol. 36, Number
2, Winter 2010. pp. 239-261.
Reprinted in Kathy Darrow ed., Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 262. Gale, 2012.
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Shorter Essays and Reviews
“Misplaced Radicalism,” review of Niilo Kauppi, Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of
French Theory in the 1960s, in Radical Philosophy, November 2011.
Synopsis of Jacques Derrida, “Nature, Culture, Écriture (de Lévi-Strauss à Rousseau)” at “Concept
and Form: The Cahiers pour l’Analyse and Contemporary French Thought”
(http://cahiers.kingston.ac.uk/synopses.html) (Published on-line 2011).
Work in Progress
The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion ed. Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon, under
consideration by Fordham University Press. (volume includes essays by John Caputo, Richard
Kearney, Hent de Vries, Amy Hollywood, Martin Hägglund, Judith Surkis, Peter Gordon, Ethan
Kleinberg, Sarah Hammerschlag, Joseph Cohen)
“Introduction” in Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon ed. The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion,
under consideration by Fordham University Press.
“Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Henri Birault,” in Edward Baring and Peter E.
Gordon ed. The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion, under consideration by Fordham University
Press.
“Ne me raconte plus d’histoires: Derrida and the Problem of the History of Philosophy,” article
length manuscript.
“The Europeanization of Phenomenology,” book-length project.
AWARDS/ PRIZES
Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, Research Grant,
College of the Liberal Arts, Drew University, Research Grant,
Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize, Harvard University,
DAAD Grant for research in Germany (Declined)
ACLS Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow,
Krupp Foundation Dissertation Finishing Grant, (Declined)
Frank Sheldon Traveling Fellow, Harvard University,
Krupp Foundation Traveling Fellow, Harvard University,
Derek C. Bok Center, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching,
Center For European Studies, Opportunity Grant,
Harvard University History Department Summer Research Grants,
Morgan Prize for History, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
Bibby Prize for Service to the Community, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
Bachelor Scholar, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
Openshaw Prize, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
Foundation Scholar, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
College Exhibitioner, Queens’ College, Cambridge,
2011
2011
2010
2010-11
2008-9
2008-9
2006-7
2006-7
2006
2005, 2007
2004, 2005, 2006
2003
2003
2002
2001
2001
2000
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TEACHING
Drew University, Madison, NJ.
“Modern Germany: 1870-Present”
Intermediate Undergraduate course
History Research Seminar
Capstone History Course
Fall 2011
Fall 2011
& Spring 2011
“Nineteenth Century European Intellectual History”
Graduate Seminar
Spring 2011
“Modern European History”
Introductory Undergraduate Course.
Spring 2011
“1968 in Europe”
Advanced Undergraduate Course.
Fall 2010
“The Making of Modern France, 1870-Present”
Intermediate Undergraduate Course.
Fall 2010
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
“Existentialism and the Death of God,”
Freshman Seminar at the Princeton Writing Program.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
“Modern Intellectual History” (Professor Peter Gordon),
Head Teaching Fellow, Taught two undergraduate sections, and led a graduate
group.
“French History 1848-present” (Professor Judith Surkis),
Taught an undergraduate section.
“French Social Thought” (Professor Judith Surkis),
Taught two undergraduate sections, and led a graduate group. Received Certificate
of Distinction in Teaching.
“Reason and Faith in the West” (Professor Ann Blair),
Taught two undergraduate sections of an introductory course.
INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
Spring 2010
& Fall 2009
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
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Response to Glen Mazis, “Animals Before Me, With Whom I Live, By Whom I Am Addressed,”
“Divinanimality: Creaturely Theology” 11th Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, Drew
Theological School, September-October 2011.
“Ethics Classes in the Existentialist School,” Conference presentation at the Society for French
Historical Studies, April, 2010.
“Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Henri Birault,” Presentation at Derrida and
Religion conference at Harvard University, March 2010.
“Reading Lévi-Strauss at the ENS; or, How to be a Good Structuralist,” Invited talk at the New York
Consortium for Intellectual History, January 2010.
“Sartre, Heidegger, and the Humanism debate,” Guest lecture in Professor Peter Gordon’s course
Modern European Intellectual History, Harvard University, April 2008.
“The Algerian War,” Guest lecture in Professor Judith Surkis’s course Modern France, Harvard
University, November 2007.
“Derrida, post-existentialist,” Invited talk at the Queens’ College Humanities Society, University of
Cambridge, April 2007.
“Can one write a history of Jacques Derrida?” Invited talk at the Queens’ College History Society,
University of Cambridge, April 2007.
“A Curious Forty Pages in Derrida’s De la grammatologie,” at Cornell University Graduate Student
Conference, Tracing the Temporal, April 2006.
“Nietzsche, Husserl, and the Crisis of the Sciences,” Guest lecture in Professor Ann Blair’s course
Reason and Faith in the West, Harvard University, November 2005.
SERVICE
Faculty sponsor for the History Honors Society
Co-organizer Oscar Wilde Conference at Drew University
Referee for Modern Intellectual History
Referee for Derrida Today
Co-organizer, Derrida and Religion Conference at Harvard University,
Co-chair Intellectual History Reading Group, www.intellectualhistory.org,
Co-chair Center for European Studies Dissertation Workshop,
President, Henry Adams Harvard History Graduate Society,
Vice President and Treasurer, Queens’ College, Cambridge, JCR,
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Historical Association.
New York Consortium for Intellectual History.
Society for French Historical Studies.
2011June 2012
20102010March 2010
2005-9
2005-6, 2007-8
2005-6
2001-2
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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (2005-9).
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
French (reading, speaking, and writing).
German (reading, speaking, and writing).
Italian (reading)
REFERENCES
Professor Peter Gordon,
Professor of History,
Center for European Studies,
27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
pgordon@fas.harvard.edu
617-495-4303 x290
Professor Judith Surkis,
Institute for Advanced Studies
Princeton, NJ
surkis@ias.edu
Professor David Blackbourn,
Coolidge Professor of History,
Center for European Studies,
27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
dgblackb@fas.harvard.edu
617-495-4303 x228
Professor Samuel Moyn,
Professor of History,
616 Fayerweather Hall,
Columbia University,
New York, NY 10027
s.moyn@columbia.edu
212-854-3009