Henry Schmidel

Area(s) of expertise

Henry Schmidel is a graduate student in the history department and a graduate research assistant for Writing in the Disciplines. His research focuses on the CIA/Air Force behavioral research in the early Cold War, and more broadly he studies the histories of CIA foreign intervention and international drug trafficking. 

In his spare time, Henry likes to watch movies. Among his favorites are:

• Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
• F for Fake (Welles, 1977)
• My Dinner With Andre (Malle, 1981)
• I... comme Icare (Verneuil, 1979)
• Todo Modo (Petri, 1976)
• Je, tu, il, elle (Akerman, 1974)
• Walker (Cox, 1987)

When he isn't watching movies, Henry is known to enjoy the novels of Roberto Bolaño, John le Carré, James Ellroy, and Don DeLillo. He owns two Warren Zevon tee-shirts and all of his records.