Marsha Houston

Professor of Communication Studies

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1983

Dr. Houston’s scholarship on the language and communication of African American women, gender and communication, and intercultural communication has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has been honored with Distinguished Book Awards from the National Communication Association’s International & Intercultural and African American Communication & Culture Divisions. She is the 1994 recipient of the Francine Merritt Award for outstanding contributions to women in the NCA and the communication discipline, and the 2002 receipient of the Southern States Communication Association Outreach Award for outstanding contributions to the academic lives of members of underrepresented groups.

Selected Publications

Houston, M., & Scott, K. (2006). Negotiating boundaries, crossing borders: The language of black women’s intercultural encounters. In J. Wood & B. Dow (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Houston, M. (2004). Multiple perspectives: African American women conceive their talk. In R. L. Jackson (Ed.), African American communication and identities: Essential readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gonzalez, A., Houston, M., & Chen, V., Eds. (2004). Our voices: Essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication, 4th ed.  Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury.