The Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship is a unique seminar program for mid-career journalists willing to enhance in-depth knowledge of psychological injury andemotional trauma as well as improve reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism has offered the annual Ochberg Felliowships to eminent mid-career journalists interesting in exploring these critical issues since 1999.
Fellows attend an intensive weeklong program of seminars and discussions held at Columbia University in New York City. Program activities include background briefings by well-known interdisciplinary experts in the trauma and mental health fields; conversations with journalist colleagues on issues of ethics, craft and other aspects of professional practice and a host of other opportunities for intellectual engagement and peer learning.
The Fellowship is led by a core faculty of prominent journalists and mental health professionals associated with the Dart Center, along with a wide range of visiting faculty.
Fellowship faculty has included:
- Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and author of Trauma and Recovery
- Jonathan Shay, M.D. Ph.D., Clinical Psychiatrist, MacArthur Fellow and author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America.
- Chicago “violence interrupter” Eddie Bocanegra with Alex Kotlowitz, producer of the documentary film “The Interrupters” and author, There Are No Children Here
- Jessica Stern, author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill and Denial: A Memoir of Terror
- Steven Southwick, M.D., Glenn H. Greenberg Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine and co-author, Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges
The Fellowship was established in 1999 by the Dart Center in partnership with the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The fellowship is named in honor of psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, M.D., a pioneer in trauma study. The Ochberg Fellowship covers all travel, accommodations and other expenses directly related to program participation. The program does not cover costs related to visas, health insurance or ground transportation in fellows’ home cities. Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships are open to outstanding mid-career journalists working across all media.
This year’s application deadline is July 20, 2012. Selected fellows will be notified by August 20, 2012.
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