Bette Bullert

Bette Jean Bullert is a communication scholar, a documentary filmmaker and an oral historian. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Washington in 1995. Since then, she has taught communication and video production as an Assistant Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. In Fall 1999, she was a Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her fellowship research focused on the integral role of public relations professionals in the shaping of the anti-sweatshop movement in the United States. She is the author of Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film (Rutgers University Press 1997), and the roducer/director of four public television documentaries, God and Money co-produced with John de Graaf in 1986), Circle of Plenty (1987), Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1994), and Alki: Birthplace of Seattle (1997). In addition, she has produced several short-format works, including Yip Harburg: Lyricist (1999) and A Place to be Duwamish (1999). Dr. Bullert has lectured at several universities and conferences on public television, art and controversy. She lives in Seattle.