B. Lee Artz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Communication Graduate Studies
E-Mail: artz@calumet.purdue.edu
Phone: (219) 989-2988
Fax: (219) 989-2008

Biography

B. Lee Artz (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. He has taught communication at Purdue University Calumet, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University.

He has written numerous articles on cultural diversity and democratic communication for leading journals. His most recent books are Public Media and the Public Interest (with Michael McCauley, Eric Petersen, and Dee Dee Halleck, 2002), Communication and Democratic Society (2001) and Cultural Hegemony in the United States (with Bren Murphy, 2000).

He has received awards in both scholarship and teaching, including the Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence at Loyola (1998), the National Communication Association’s Applied Communication Division’s Distinguished Article Award (with Frey, Pearce, Pollock, and Murphy, 1998), and the First Paper Award at the Global Fusion Conference (2001).

A former machinist and union activist, Artz has been a frequent advisor on communication and education for labor organizations and public and private schools in Illinois and Michigan. He received his B.S. in Education and Black Studies at Wayne State University and his M.A. in Communication at California State University-Hayward.