Faculty and Staff

As a student, you will have the opportunity to mentor with a number of outstanding faculty members. Each of these nationally recognized and award winning professors have years of educational and research experience and are dedicated and committed educators.

The faculty actively participates in a number of organizations to stay at the forefront of the changing world of communication studies.


Faculty



Instructors


Tamara Arrington

Tamara Arrington, M.A.
Instructor


When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny. - Dr. Bertice Berry

CHSS 410U
936.294.4318
txa041@shsu.edu
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Allyzah Allene D. Cabugao

Allyzah Allene D. Cabugao
Adjunct Professor


I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.- Steve Irwin

CHSS 410D
adc080@shsu.edu
936.294.1516

Dena Horne

Dena Horne, M.A.
Instructor


The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. - Dr. Randy Pausch

CHSS 410T
936.294.1336
drh022@shsu.edu
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Anne-Bennett Smithson

Anne-Bennett Smithson, Ph.D., J.D.
Instructor


We know what we are now, but not what we may become. -Shakespeare

CHSS 410Z
936.294.3640
abs055@shsu.edu
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Michesha Washington

Michesha Washington, M.A.
Instructor


We are stronger when we listen and smarter when we share. -Rania Al Abdullah

CHSS 410V
936.294.3743
msk017@shsu.edu
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Kelly Weikle

Dr. Kelly Weikle
Instructor


It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time - and you are better than you know.- Marianne Williamson

936.294.3695
klw121@shsu.edu
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Adjunct Faculty


Carlton Abernathy

Carlton Abernathy, M.A.
Adjunct Professor


Keep plugging away at whatever it is you wish to do in life! And, as my father always told me, “if you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on---then, climb right back up!”

stdcga11@shsu.edu

Shelby Alverson

Shelby Alverson, M.A.
Adjunct Professor


Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. -Aristotle

sna013@shsu.edu

Richard Bello, Ph.D.

Richard Bello, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus


I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. -Albert Einstein

CHSS 410E
936.294.3654
bello@shsu.edu

Susan Honeywell

Susan Honeywell, M.A.
Adjunct Professor


Love the Life You Live, Live the Life You Love – Bob Marley

slh101@shsu.edu

Marceleen Mosher

Marceleen Mosher, M.A.
Adjunct Professor


Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? - Aldo Leopold

mmm126@shsu.edu

Nilam Patel, M.A.

Nilam Patel, M.A.
Adjunct Professor


In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate. – Gene Roddenberry

nxp019@shsu.edu

Margaret Smallwood

Margaret Smallwood
Adjunct Professor


The things that divide us are trivial and inconsequential. The things that unite us are long-lasting and important.- Douglas Preston, "Talking to the Ground."

mgs043@shsu.edu

Terry M. Thibodeaux, Ph.D.

Terry M. Thibodeaux, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus


I think teaching is the noblest profession. I feel very fortunate to be able to work in a job where I love what I do and have the opportunity to help students build a better life for themselves.

CHSS 410E
thib@shsu.edu
936.294.3654


Staff


Michelle Plitt

Michelle Plitt
Assistant to the Chair

CHSS 410A
936.294.3676
mep033@shsu.edu


Department of Communication Studies

Mailing Address

Department of Communication Studies
Sam Houston State University
Box 2299
Huntsville, Texas 77341
Phone: 936.294.1497

Physical Address

Department of Communication Studies
1901 Avenue I
Suite 410
Huntsville, Texas 77340
Phone: 936.294.1497