Marsha Houston Stanback

Marsha Houston Stanback Dr. Marsha Huston is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at Georgia State University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emory College of Emory University and taught at Clark College in Atlanta Georgia from 1972 until 1976. She earned a Masters in Dramatic Art with a concentration on theater history and literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then she began teaching at Western New England College in Springfield Massachusetts from 1977 until 1980. She became an Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1982. In 1985 she became an Associate Professor of English and Sociology Director of the Communication Studies Program at Spelman College. In 1986 she was made a member of the Educational Policies Board of the National Communications Association and she remained a board member until 1989. In 1987 Marsha Huston was made chair of the Department of Communications at Georgia State University; in 2004 she received Delta Sigma Rho Tau Kappa Epsilon National Honorary Society’s Outstanding Alumni Award.

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