Dr. Manoucheka Celeste Recognized for Outstanding Scholarship! National Communication Association’s Marsha Houston Award
Introduction
The GWS Department congratulates Associate Professor Manoucheka Celeste for being the recipient of the 2025 National Communication Association's Marsha Houston Award! We celebrate her dedicated and transformative work!
Established by the NCA Executive Committee in 2020 and first conferred in 2021, the award honors Dr. Marsha Houston, noted African American feminist communication scholar who was instrumental in helping raise and duly ensure recognition of the collective academic voices of African American women and other women of color in conventional feminist communication.
Dr. Manoucheka Celeste’s cutting-edge, timely scholarship demonstrates her substantial theoretical, methodological and practical commitment to issues of representational visibility, equity, intersectionality, and global justice. Dr. Celeste’s research poses necessary challenges to Communication Studies scholarship, embracing transdisciplinary perspectives and embodied cultural experiences. Her work, both scholarly and pedagogical, brings together the voices of marginalized groups, powerfully altering how we see the importance of such groups in communication theorizing. Dr. Celeste genuinely values and supports her mentees, especially when they’re facing daunting challenges. This generosity of spirit and lasting impact on the lives of others embody the ideals of Dr. Houston’s legacy.