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Averell Schmidt

Political Science · 0000-0002-8223-6812 · Cornell University

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Publications

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2025 Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation American Journal of Political Science article journal CV OA GS

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lines 39–45 · CV · published

39Averell Schmidt, “Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Coopera-40tion,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2025), pp. 223–239.4142• Recipient of the Best Article of 2025 Award from the American Society of International Law’s43International Law and Social Science Interest Group.44• Recipient of the Best Article of 2023 Award from the American Political Science Association’s45International Collaboration Section.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation	Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International CooperationDamaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation	Damaged relations: How treaty withdrawal impacts international cooperation
year cv	2025	20212023	2025
venue openalex	American Journal of Political Science	American Journal of Political Science	American Journal of Political Science
kind cv	article	working_paperarticle	other
DOI crossref	10.1111/ajps.12826	10.31235/osf.io/meyau10.1111/ajps.12826
preprint DOI openalex		10.31235/osf.io/meyau
first author openalex	Schmidt	SchmidtSchmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 15
Scholar: 36
OpenAlex with related records: 20
DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12826
OpenAlex: W4386094661

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2024 Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends International Journal of Transitional Justice article journal CV OA GS

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lines 47–49 · CV · published

47Kathryn Sikkink, Helen Clapp, Daniel Marin-Lopez, and Averell Schmidt, “Gender and Trans-48itional Justice: Explaining Global Trends,” International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 18, No.493 (November 2024), pp. 387–404.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Sikkink
Co-authors: Kathryn Sikkink; Helen Clapp; Daniel Marin-Lopez; Averell Schmidt
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends	Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends	Gender and transitional justice: Explaining global trends
year cv	2024	2024	2024
venue crossref	International Journal of Transitional Justice	International Journal of Transitional Justice	International journal of transitional justice
kind cv	article	article	other
DOI crossref	10.1093/ijtj/ijae022	10.1093/ijtj/ijae022
first author openalex	Sikkink	Sikkink	Sikkink

Citations

OpenAlex: 3
Scholar: 10
DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijae022
OpenAlex: W4400386258

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doi merged · 1.00 · Run 17

2024 Treaty Withdrawal and the Development of International Law The Review of International Organizations article journal CV OA GS

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lines 51–55 · CV · published

51Averell Schmidt, “Treaty Withdrawal and the Development of International Law,” Review of Inter-52national Organizations, Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 2024), pp. 785–808.5354• Recipient of the Lawrence S. Finkelstein Prize from the International Studies Association’s55International Organization Section.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar	CrossRef
title cv	Treaty Withdrawal and the Development of International Law	Treaty Withdrawal and the Development of International LawTreaty withdrawal and the development of international law	Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law: Schmidt A.
year cv	2024	20232024	2024
venue crossref	Review of International Organizations	The Review of International Organizations	The Review of International Organizations	The Review of International Organizations
kind cv	article	working_paperarticle	other
DOI crossref	10.1007/s11558-024-09553-4	10.31235/osf.io/d432p10.1007/s11558-024-09553-4
preprint DOI openalex		10.31235/osf.io/d432p
first author openalex	Schmidt	SchmidtSchmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 7
Scholar: 19
OpenAlex with related records: 11
DOI: 10.1007/s11558-024-09553-4
OpenAlex: W4399390676

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2022 Torture during the War on Terror: A Story of Norm Contestation and Resistance Embattled Visions chapter CV OA GS

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lines 87–89 · CV · published

87Averell Schmidt, “Torture during the War on Terror: A Story of Norm Contestation and Resist-88ance” in Jan Eckel and Daniel Stahl, eds., Embattled Visions: Human Rights since 1990 (G¨ottingen,89Germany: Wallstein Verlag, 2022), pp. 229–247.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar	CrossRef
title cv	Torture during the War on Terror: A Story of Norm Contestation and Resistance	Torture during the War on Terror. A Story of Norm Contestation and Resistance	Torture during the War on Terror. A Story of Norm Contestation and Resistance
year cv	2022	2022	2022
venue crossref	Embattled Visions: Human Rights since 1990	Wallstein Verlag eBooks	Embattled Visions	Embattled Visions
kind cv	chapter	chapter	other
DOI crossref	10.5771/9783835348417-231	10.5771/9783835348417-231
first author openalex	Schmidt	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 0
Scholar: none
DOI: 10.5771/9783835348417-231
OpenAlex: W4285158783

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doi merged · 1.00 · Run 17

2021 Brief of Coalition of Human Rights Scholars as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. No. 20-827 other CV OA GS

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lines 93–95 · CV · published

93“Brief of Coalition of Human Rights Scholars as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents.” 2021.94Filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad95Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. No. 20-827.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: no
First author: none
Co-authors: none
Subfield: public policy
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Brief of Coalition of Human Rights Scholars as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents
year cv	2021
venue cv	Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al. No. 20-827
kind cv	other
first author cv	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

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No decision recorded; a single record.

2019 Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm Journal of Global Security Studies article journal CV OA GS

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lines 57–59 · CV · published

57Averell Schmidt and Kathryn Sikkink, “Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Con-58testation of the Torture Norm,” Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 2019), pp.59105–122.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: Averell Schmidt; Kathryn Sikkink
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm	Breaking the Ban? The Heterogeneous Impact of US Contestation of the Torture Norm	Breaking the ban? The heterogeneous impact of US contestation of the torture norm
year cv	2019	2018	2019
venue crossref	Journal of Global Security Studies	Journal of Global Security Studies	Journal of Global Security Studies
kind cv	article	article	other
DOI crossref	10.1093/jogss/ogy036	10.1093/jogss/ogy036
first author openalex	Schmidt	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 57
Scholar: 64
DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogy036
OpenAlex: W2916870609

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2018 Los costos estratégicos de la tortura article CV OA GS Scholar only

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Not in the CV.

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Field	OpenAlex	Scholar
title openalex	Los costos estratégicos de la tortura	Los costos estratégicos de la tortura
year openalex	2018	2018
kind openalex	article	other
first author openalex	Johnson	Johnson

Citations

OpenAlex: 0
Scholar: none
OpenAlex: W2943359495

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2018 Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program Perspectives on Politics article journal CV OA GS

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lines 61–65 · CV · published

61Averell Schmidt and Kathryn Sikkink, “Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA’s62Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program,” Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 16, No. 4 (December632018), pp. 1014–1033.64• Featured in: Aisha E. Bradshaw, “Covert Collaboration,” Nature Human Behaviour, Vol. 3, No.652 (February 2019), p. 110.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: Averell Schmidt; Kathryn Sikkink
Subfield: international relations
Method: quantitative
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA’s Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program	Partners in Crime: An Empirical Evaluation of the CIA Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation Program	Partners in crime: An empirical evaluation of the CIA rendition, detention, and interrogation program
year cv	2018	2018	2018
venue crossref	Perspectives on Politics	Perspectives on Politics	Perspectives on Politics
kind cv	article	article	other
DOI crossref	10.1017/s1537592717004224	10.1017/s1537592717004224
first author openalex	Schmidt	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 21
Scholar: 20
DOI: 10.1017/s1537592717004224
OpenAlex: W2900756467

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2017 This is what will happen if Trump brings back secret prisons Monkey Cage, The Washington Post article CV OA GS

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lines 97–98 · CV · published

97Averell Schmidt and Kathryn Sikkink, “This is what will happen if Trump brings back secret pris-98ons,” Monkey Cage, The Washington Post, February 9, 2017.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: no
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: Averell Schmidt; Kathryn Sikkink
Subfield: american politics
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	This is what will happen if Trump brings back secret prisons
year cv	2017
venue cv	Monkey Cage, The Washington Post
kind cv	article
first author cv	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

Match decisions

No decision recorded; a single record.

2016 The Strategic Costs of Torture: How Enhanced Interrogations Hurt America Foreign Affairs article journal CV OA GS

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lines 100–102 · CV · published

100Douglas A. Johnson, Alberto Mora, and Averell Schmidt, “The Strategic Costs of Torture: How101Enhanced Interrogations Hurt America,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 95, No. 5 (September/October 2016),102pp. 121–132.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: no
First author: Johnson
Co-authors: Douglas A. Johnson; Alberto Mora; Averell Schmidt
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	The Strategic Costs of Torture: How Enhanced Interrogations Hurt America	The Strategic Costs of Torture.	The strategic costs of torture: How enhanced interrogation hurt America
year cv	2016	2016	2016
venue openalex	Foreign Affairs	Foreign Affairs	Foreign Aff.
kind cv	article	article	other
first author openalex	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson

Citations

OpenAlex: 7
Scholar: 49
OpenAlex: W2993740476

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gemini merged · 0.99 · Run 17 These records all share the same publication year, journal, and highly similar titles concerning the strategic costs of torture.

United Nations Treaty Series other CV OA GS

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lines 106–109 · CV · unknown

106United Nations Treaty Series – 71,463 treaties, over 1.1 million pages of treaty text, and the tim-107ing of 276,821 ratifications, withdrawals, signatures, and other legal actions taken by states with108respect to all bilateral and multilateral treaties during the 1873 to 2020 period, as recorded by the109League of Nations and the United Nations registries.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: none
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: quantitative
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	United Nations Treaty Series
kind cv	other
first author cv	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

Match decisions

No decision recorded; a single record.

In progress

7 items in progress, under review, forthcoming or a working paper · not counted as publications

2026 Adaptation to International Organizations working paper CV OA GS

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lines 74–74 · CV · in_progress

74Ruofan Ma and Averell Schmidt, “Adaptation to International Organizations”

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Ma
Co-authors: Ruofan Ma; Averell Schmidt
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	Scholar
title scholar	Adaptation to International Organizations	Adaptation to International Organizations
year scholar		2026
kind cv	working_paper	other
DOI crossref	10.31235/osf.io/ne78m_v1
preprint DOI	10.31235/osf.io/ne78m_v1
first author scholar	Ma	Ma

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ne78m_v1

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2026 Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability in an Era of Impunity OSF working paper CV OA GS

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lines 76–77 · CV · in_progress

76Kathryn Sikkink, Geoff Dancy, and Averell Schmidt, “Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability77in an Era of Impunity” (available upon request)

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Sikkink
Co-authors: Kathryn Sikkink; Geoff Dancy; Averell Schmidt
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title scholar	Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability in an Era of Impunity	Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability in an Era of Impunity	Is the Justice Cascade Over? Accountability in an Era of Impunity
year scholar		2026	2026
venue scholar			OSF
kind scholar	working_paper	working_paper	other
DOI crossref	10.31235/osf.io/2uxhc_v1	10.31235/osf.io/2uxhc_v1
preprint DOI	10.31235/osf.io/2uxhc_v1	10.31235/osf.io/2uxhc_v1
first author scholar	Sikkink	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 0
Scholar: none
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/2uxhc_v1
OpenAlex: W7203460498

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doi merged · 1.00 · Run 17

2026 Reciprocity and the Dynamics of Human Rights Diplomacy OSF working paper CV OA GS

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lines 72–72 · CV · in_progress

72Averell Schmidt, “Reciprocity and the Dynamics of Human Rights Diplomacy”

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title scholar	Reciprocity and the Dynamics of Human Rights Diplomacy	Reciprocity and the Dynamics of Human Rights Diplomacy	Reciprocity and the Dynamics of Human Rights Diplomacy
year scholar		2026	2026
venue scholar			OSF
kind scholar	working_paper	working_paper	other
DOI crossref	10.31235/osf.io/ud7m2_v1	10.31235/osf.io/ud7m2_v1
preprint DOI	10.31235/osf.io/ud7m2_v1	10.31235/osf.io/ud7m2_v1
first author scholar	Schmidt	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 0
Scholar: 2
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ud7m2_v1
OpenAlex: W7160614926

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doi merged · 1.00 · Run 17

2025 International Monitoring and Domestic Accountability: Evidence from the United Nations Human Rights Council OSF working paper CV OA GS

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lines 69–70 · CV · under_review

69Averell Schmidt, “International Monitoring and Domestic Accountability: Evidence from the United70Nations Human Rights Council” (Revise & Resubmit at American Journal of Political Science)

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: yes
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: none
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title scholar	International Monitoring and Domestic Accountability: Evidence from the United Nations Human Rights Council	International Monitoring and Domestic Accountability: Evidence from the United Nations Human Rights Council	International Monitoring and Domestic Accountability: Evidence from the United Nations Human Rights Council
year scholar		2025	2025
venue scholar	American Journal of Political Science		OSF
kind scholar	article	working_paper	other
DOI crossref	10.31235/osf.io/yhd3k_v1	10.31235/osf.io/yhd3k_v1
preprint DOI	10.31235/osf.io/yhd3k_v1	10.31235/osf.io/yhd3k_v1
first author scholar	Schmidt	Schmidt	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: 0
Scholar: none
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/yhd3k_v1
OpenAlex: W4413043306

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doi merged · 1.00 · Run 17

Peace through Law? International Law, Norms, and the Decline in Interstate Wars working paper CV OA GS

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lines 79–80 · CV · in_progress

79Averell Schmidt, Kathryn Sikkink, Aroop Mukharji, and Federica D’Alessandra, “Peace through80Law? International Law, Norms, and the Decline in Interstate Wars” (available upon request)

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Schmidt
Co-authors: Averell Schmidt; Kathryn Sikkink; Aroop Mukharji; Federica D’Alessandra
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Peace through Law? International Law, Norms, and the Decline in Interstate Wars
kind cv	working_paper
first author cv	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

Match decisions

No decision recorded; a single record.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers other CV OA GS

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lines 110–113 · CV · in_progress

110Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (in progress) – data acquired through the Freedom of Inform-111ation Act on all 239,479 United States Peace Corps volunteers serving from 1961 to 2020 including112their name, sector, post, and start/end dates. To be merged with all 55,905 LinkedIn profiles citing113Peace Corps service.

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: none
Co-authors: none
Subfield: american politics
Method: quantitative
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
kind cv	other
first author cv	Schmidt

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

Match decisions

No decision recorded; a single record.

The Demand and Supply of Justice: Introducing the Human Rights Accountability Index working paper CV OA GS

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lines 82–83 · CV · in_progress

82Geoff Dancy, Averell Schmidt, and Oskar Timo Thoms, “The Demand and Supply of Justice: Intro-83ducing the Human Rights Accountability Index”

Institution fields

Peer reviewed: none
First author: Dancy
Co-authors: Geoff Dancy; Averell Schmidt; Oskar Timo Thoms
Subfield: international relations
Method: none
Invited: none
Publisher: none
Reprint or translation: none

Fields by source

Field	CV	OpenAlex	Scholar
title cv	The Demand and Supply of Justice: Introducing the Human Rights Accountability Index
kind cv	working_paper
first author cv	Dancy

Citations

OpenAlex: none
Scholar: none

Match decisions

No decision recorded; a single record.

Positions

2 from the CV · current position answer · Scholar affiliation

Title	Organization	Years	Rank	Source	Lines
Assistant Professor current	Cornell University	2025–	Assistant	CV	16, 18
Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Brown University	2024–2025	Postdoc	CV	20, 22
Assistant Professor			Assistant	CV current position	16
Department of Government, Cornell University			Unknown	Scholar

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Google Scholar

Profile: Verified profile ↗

Rank

rank: Assistant as of 2026
source: CV positions
title: Assistant Professor

Identity

status: Auto
OpenAlex: A5080793155
method: orcid
confidence: 1.00
cross-check: 8/17 CV titles in 34 works
Scholar: Found tc7GmsUAAAAJ
open reviews: 2

Cohort

cohort: Cornell Government

Metrics

h-index (Scholar): 6
citations (Scholar): 200

Answers

PhD year: 2024 line 26
PhD institution: Harvard University line 26
Current position: Assistant Professor line 16

Latest run

run: Run 17
CV: averell_schmidt.pdf
stage: merge
status: Done

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CVs

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