At Purdue University Calumet, Lee Artz is Associate Professor of Communication and Yahya R. Kamalipour is Professor of Communication and Head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts. Artz is the coauthor (with Bren Ortega Murphy) of Cultural Hegemony in the United States and is the editor of Communication Practices and Democratic Society. Kamalipour is the editor of Images of the U.S. around the World: A Multicultural Perspective and coeditor (with Theresa Carilli) of Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media, both also published by SUNY Press.