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Biography
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David Bulla David Bulla, a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications, focuses his research on the history of U.S. journalism. His dissertation explores suppression of the press in Indiana during the Civil War. He is a member of the American Journalism Historians Association and presented a paper on press suppression at the national convention in Nashville, Tenn., in October of 2002. Other research interests include sports communication, scholastic journalism and literary nonfiction. Bulla earned his B.A. in English from UNC at Greensboro and his M.A. in journalism from Indiana University. His thesis at IU compared an insider's account of a high school basketball season to that of a conventional journalism account of the same season. He has worked for the Greensboro News & Record, Durham Sun, Winston-Salem Chronicle, Black College Sports Review, Peegs.com and Music Matters Magazine. He won sports journalism awards from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the N.C. Press Association in 1986-87; was vice president of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association in 1999; won the Frances Wilhoit Award for research at Indiana University in 2001, and had the outstanding student research paper in 2002 for the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has helped put together the sports panel for UF's annual symposium on converged journalism. At UF, Bulla serves as the lecture assistant for introductory media writing and teaches one lab section. He is married to journalist Kalpana Ramgopal, a designer with the Lakeland Ledger. |
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MMC 2100 Writing for Mass Communication University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Weimer Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611 Percy23@aol.com ©David W. Bulla 2003 http://www.oocities.org/d_bulla/mmc2100/labs.html Home |