David Bulla, an assistant professor of journalism at the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, focuses his research on the history of U.S. journalism. His dissertation explored the suppression of the press in Indiana during the Civil War. Other research interests include convergence, sports communication, scholastic journalism, international communication and literary nonfiction.

Bulla earned his Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Florida in 2004, his B.A. in English from UNC at Greensboro in 1983 and his M.A. in journalism from Indiana University in 2001. He has an extensive background in sports journalism, having worked for the Greensboro News & Record, Durham Sun, Winston-Salem Chronicle, Black College Sports Review and Peegs.com.

Bulla won sports journalism awards from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the N.C. Press Association in 1986-87.

The ISU professor also taught high school journalism and English in North Carolina throughout the 1990s. He was the adviser of newspapers at Greensboro Smith and Dudley High Schools. He was vice president for newspapers of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association in 1999.

The North Carolina native also won the Frances Wilhoit Award for research at Indiana University in 2001; had the outstanding student research paper in 2002 for the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; and was named the top teaching assistant for UF's College of Journalism and Communications and honored as a top teaching assistant for the university in 2002-03.

Bulla teaches introductory media writing and intermediate reporting. He is married to journalist Kalpana Ramgopal, a designer for the Des Moines Register. They have two Shetland Sheepdogs, Cocoa and Iris.