B.J. Bullert

 
 

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Core Faculty, Center for Creative Change

Summary of Education and Relevant Experience

B. A., Boston University; M.Litt, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Ph.D., University of Washington.
B.J. Bullert is interested in visual media, political communication and documentary filmmaking. Her current research focuses broadly on civic engagement: how organizations and governments use digital media to advance their agendas; how public relations professionals seek to influence journalists; and how citizens can make media and be effective catalysts for change. She has 20
years' experience as a documentary filmmaker. Her intellectual
moorings rest in the qualitative sociology Howard S. Becker and
the historian Howard Zinn.

Bullert has taught communication at American University, Muhlenberg College and the University of Washington. She was a Research Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University, where she studied the integral role of public relations professionals in shaping the sweatshop awareness movement.

Affiliations

  • Senior Research Fellow, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement,
    University of Washington
  • Board of Advisors, Center for Free Inquiry, Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana
  • Member, 911 Media Arts Center
  • Member, Cinema Seattle

Professional Interests

  • Media reform and democracy
  • The arts and social movements
  • Visual literacy
  • Animal communication

Select Publications and Recent Films

  • "Strategic Public Relations, Sweatshops and the Making of a Global Movement," depts.washington.edu/ccce/assets/documents/bj_bullert/strategic_public_relations.pdf
  • "Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film"
    (Rutgers University Press, 1997)
  • "Everett DuPen: Sculptor," half-hour portrait of the artist, release June 2007
  • "Fishermen's Terminal," KCTS broadcast 2005
  • "Chief Seattle," KCTS broadcast 2001

To learn more about Bullert's film work, please visit www.seattlefilms.org and www.fishermensterminal.net.

Contact Information

Center for Creative Change
206-268-4908

B.J. Bullert
206-268-4715
E-mail