Professor Barry joined the Iona faculty in 2017. Prior to Iona, he was a Fulbright Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of São Paulo. His research has focused on the history of European philosophy, especially on Baruch Spinoza, but more recently has moved into how philosophy fits within higher education and society more generally. In this spirit, he will return to Brazil starting in summer 2022 to do a Fulbright project on public philosophy at the Federal University of Paraíba.