Dr. Anthony Feinstein, 

M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

November 4

Dr. Anthony Feinstein is currently a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Dr. Feinstein is involved in a series of studies of relevance to current issues within our society. The questions being addressed are: How are journalists affected emotionally by their work in zones of conflict and what motivates them to pursue such dangerous occupations? In 2000-2001 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study mental health issues in post-apartheid Namibia. This led to the development of that country's first rating scale for mental illness. Subsequent work in Botswana produced that country's first rating scale for mental illness as well.

Dr. Feinstein is the author of "Dangerous Lives: War and the Men and Women Who Report It" (Thomas Allen, Toronto 2003), "In Conflict" (New Namibia Books, 1998), "The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis" (Cambridge University Press 1999, with a second edition in 2007), "Michael Rabin, America's Virtuoso Violinist" (Amadeus Press, 2005, with a second edition in 2011) and "Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War" (John Hopkins University Press). His most recent book is "Battle Scarred" (Tafelberg Press, 2011).  

"Bedrooms of the Fallen"

Ashley Gilbertson 

Photographer with the VII Photo Agency, New York and Paris

November 11

Ashley Gilbertson's imagery from Iraq, where he worked from 2002 until 2008 for the New York Times, earned him critical acclaim from, among others, the Overseas Press Club which awarded Gilbertson the prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his 2004 work in Falluja. 

His first book, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," was released in 2007 and went on to become a best seller, reaching the Top 100 on Amazon. Since then, Gilbertson has been producing "Bedrooms Of The Fallen," a collection of photographs depicting the intact bedrooms of service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2009, a substantial part of "Bedrooms of the Fallen" was commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" and published in March of 2010. The work was published in book form by The University of Chicago in 2014. Founded in 2001, the VII Photo Agency specializes in conflict photography.  

"Tell Them I Didn't Cry"

Jackie Spinner

Assistant professor, Columbia College, Chicago

Jackie Spinner was a staff writer for "The Washington Post" for 14 years and covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Spinner arrived as the most junior member of The Washington Post bureau staff, working as a metro reporter and financial reporter, before becoming Baghdad Bureau Chief. In Iraq, she survived mortar attacks, car bombs, the Battle for Fallujah and a kidnapping attempt outside of Abu Ghraib prison. 

Spinner left the Post in 2009 and founded Angel Says: Read, an international literacy project based in Belize, Central America. In 2010, she returned to Iraq to start the award-winning AUI-S Voice, Iraq's first independent student newspaper at The American University of Iraq. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Oman and taught journalism at Sultan Qaboos University in 2010-2011, where she founded Al Mir'ah, the university's first independent student newspaper. 

In 2011, she was named Fishback Visiting Writer at Washington and Lee University. She has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy magazine, Slate, Glamour, American Journalism Review, Defense Quarterly Standard and U.S. Catholic News. She is the author of "Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A young journalist's story of joy, loss and survival in Iraq" (Scribner 2006). 

Spinner is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Journalism and Women's Symposium and Military Reporters & Editors Association. She is co-director of "Conflict Zone," a groundbreaking multimedia exhibit from the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan.