Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

In 2003, Professor McFarlane was presented with the Robert Laufer Award for outstanding scientific achievemnt in the study of the effects of traumatic stress. He is the senior advisor in psychiatry to the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health. He is also an advisor to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs on a scientific investigation of Gulf War syndrome. He has acted as an advisor to many groups in post-disaster situations, including the Kuwaiti Government and the United Nations. He has lectured and run workshops in Europe, the United States of America, Asia and South Africa.

As an investigative journalist and commentator Shapiro has covered terrain ranging from inner-city neighborhoods to the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. Beginning in the mid-1990s Shapiro began extensive reporting on crime victims and American society, and documented the intersection of politics and violence on issues ranging from capital punishment to combat trauma.  He was national correspondent for Salon.com, and wrote for the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and numerous other publications worldwide

Shapiro’s most recent book is Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books). He is co-author of Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (New Press).  He teaches  investigative journalism at Yale University, and has been featured as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, Fox News and  NPR.