COMMUNICATION STUDIES FACULTY &STAFF

	Tracey Holley  Instructor. Ms. Holley regularly teaches: Business & Professional Speaking, Interpersonal, and Voice & Diction. She also is TSU's Summer Camps Director. Her research interests include jury research, and she has presented papers at the Texas Speech Communication Association and the Southern Speech Communication Association Conventions.
Tracey Holley Office: 108 Phone: 254.968.9133 Email:holley@tarleton.edu	B.A. Tarleton State University M.A. Texas State University

	Cristi Horton Instructor. Ms. Horton teaches fundamentals of Speech and Business & Professional Speaking. She has co-authored works with Tarla Peterson at Texas A&M and has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. Her interests include environmental rhetoric and persuasion.
Cristi Horton Office: 215C Phone: 254.968.9380 Email:Horton@tarleton.edu	B.A. Texas A&M University M.A. Texas A&M University

	Charles Howard Associate Professor & Department Head. Dr. Howard teaches: Debate, Public Relations and Mass Communication Law. Since coming to TSU in 1991 he has presented at the Southern Speech Communication Association Convention and served as Chair of the Freedom of Speech Division. His research interests include First Amendment issues and political communication.
Charles Howard Office: 410A Phone 254.968.9149 mailto:choward@tarleton.edu	B.A. College of the Ozarks M.A. University of Arkansas Ph.D. University of Kansas

 

	Dan Malone Instructor. Mr. Malone teaches Journalism   and Mass Communication Studies. His background includes coverage of the criminal justice system, prisons and national security issues. Mr. Malone worked at The Dallas Morning News, The Fort Worth Star Telegram and The Ft. Worth Weekly. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1992.
Dan Malone Office:  109 254.968.9385 Email: Dmalone@tarleton.edu	B.J. University of Texas M.A. University of North Texas

 

	Michael Milford Assistant Professor. Dr. Milford recently joined TSU and specializes in Rhetoric and Public Address.  He will be teaching Rhetorical and Communication Theory and Debate.
Mike Milford Office 409A Phone 254.968.1964 Email: Milford@tarleton.edu	B.A. Hardin-Simmons University M.A. Abilene Christian University Ph.D. University of Kansas

	James Pauff  Assistant Professor. Dr. Pauff teaches Interpersonal and Small Group Communication and has a research interest is "symbolization," and World War I. He has presented papers at the Southern State Communication Association, and is director of the Purple and White Student Film Festival
James Pauff Office:  409B Phone: 254.968.9132 Email: Pauff@tarleton.edu	B.F.A. Ohio State University M.A. Bowling Green State University Ph.D. Bowling Green State University

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Gay Wakefield Associate Professor and Director of Assessment.  Dr. Wakefield joins Tarleton as both a Communication Studies Professor and as Director of University Assesment.  Prior to joining Tarleton she was director of Assessment at the Neely School of Business at Texas Christian Univesity and Director of the Professional Communication Program.  She has previously taught at Southern Illiniois University and Butler University.  Her expertise is in Public Relations, Organizational communication and communication ethics.

Gay Wakefield Office: 215B Davis Hall Phone: 254-968.1833

Ed.D. Texas A&M University at Commerce M.A.  Texas Christian University BFA   Texas Christian University