Tamara Brown, chair of the communication department and assistant professor of speech communication, joined the faculty of Northwestern in August of 1998.  She was promoted to chair in July 2004.  Brown received her B.S. from Northwestern in May 1992 and her M.S. in Speech Pathology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in May 1994. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Oklahoma State University.

In addition to teaching speech communication and speech pathology courses, Brown serves Northwestern on a number of committees.  Currently she is chair of the Faculty Development Advisory Board and co-Director of the Miss Cinderella Scholarship Pageant.

Brown has a distinguished teaching career at Northwestern.  She was named John Sheffield Teacher of the Year for 2004-2005.  In addition, she received the John Barton Distinguished Teaching and Service Award for 2005-2006.

Brown holds a State of Oklahoma license to practice speech language pathology and a Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech Language Pathology from the American Speech Language Hearing Association. She is a member of the Oklahoma Speech Theatre Communication Association, the American Speech Language Hearing Association, and the National Communicational Association.

Brown and her husband Scott live in Alva with their two children, Megan and Colton.