BIOGRAPHY
B. .J. Bullert, Ph.D., is a Seattle native with a doctorate in communication from the University of Washington and a M. Litt. degree in politics from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. In 1999, she was a Research Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University where her fellowship research focused on the integral role of public relations professionals in the shaping of the sweatshop awareness movement in the United States.

Bullert has taught communication and video and film production as an assistant professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the UW’s Center for Communication and Civic Engagement since 2000.

Bullert is the author of Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film (Rutgers University Press, 1997) and the producer/director of five public television documentaries, including Chief Seattle (2000), Alki: Birthplace of Seattle (1997) and Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1995). In addition, she has produced several short-format works, Space Needle at 40, (2002) Blowing the Whistle on Hanford (2002) Yip Harburg: Lyricist (1999), A Place to be Duwamish (1999), Duwamish Life with Prof. Kenneth Tollefson (2000), The Duwamish: Still Here (2000), Naomi Klein: Sweatshops on Fire (2000) and Andrew Ross: History Lesson (2000).

She is currently producing Everett DuPen, a documentary about the influential Pacific Northwest sculptor, and is developing a new documentary about dogs, health, happiness and love.

A member of the American Guild of Court Videographers, she videotapes legal depositions when not making documentary films. Her business, Depositions and Documentaries, was founded in 2004.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Communication, University of Washington, 1995. Dissertation: The Anatomy of Controversy: PBS, Independent Producers and the Promise of Public Television. Emphasis on history of communication, political communication and media theory.
M. Litt., Politics, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, 1981. Specialized in 18th Century History of Ideas and Sociology of Religion with Professors Charles Taylor, Alan Montefiore and Bryan Wilson. M.Litt. Thesis: “Ethical Individualism and Religious Divisions in Enlightenment Scotland: The Case of Adam Smith.”
B. A. Philosophy, magna cum laude, Boston University, 1977. Studied with Professors Alasdair MacIntyre and Howard Zinn.

B. J. Bullert
Documentary Filmmaker
Contact Information
Tel. (206) 932-8973
Cell (206) 818-1662
b.bullert@comcast.net