Postdoctoral Associates 2014-2015
- Matthew Baxter
Matthew Baxter received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. After his year at the CCA, Matt accepted a fellowship at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center, then joined the faculty at Ashoka University in July 2018 after two years as a visiting scholar at Cornell University’s South Asia Program (2016-2018). Since December 2022, Matt has worked at Syracuse University as the Regional Programs Manager-Asia at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs and as an Assistant Professor by Courtesy Appointment in the Political Science Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
- Andrew Moisey
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Andrew Moisey received his Ph.D. in 2014 from U.C. Berkeley in Film and Media Studies. He is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Cornell University. A photographer and a historian of photography, Andrew’s research investigates how photography became an art that deals with philosophical problems. His current book project, The Photographic World Picture, shows how four artists--one early modern and three contemporary--took pictures that reflected prevalent philosophical views of their time. It describes how Newtonian mechanics shaped Canaletto's cityscapes, how structuralism favored Bernd and Hilla Bechers' industrial typologies, and how Andreas Gursky's large-scale digital photographs describe globalization. Each development needed photography's "subjective" point of view on the ground to seem like an "objective" view of the world at large.