Deborah Hoag


Post-Secondary Education

University of California Irvine
Master of Arts
Social Sciences

West Texas State University
Bachelors of General Studies
General Studies

Texas Tech University
Master of Arts
Political Science


Teaching Experience

Texas Tech University, Part-time Instructor/Adjunct Faculty, 1986

University of California, Irvine, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1987-1989

Katy Independent School District, Contract Instructor, Adult Education, 1997-1999

Lone Star College, Adjunct Faculty, 2002-2011

Austin Community College, Faculty, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Government, 2011-Present

Austin Community College, Faculty, Student Development, Student Success, 2016-Present

Austin Community College, Faculty, Humanities, The Great Questions Seminar, 2019-Present


Professional Publications

Author and Editor:  United States Government, Vol. I and United States Government, Vol. II, Vol. III (2021); Vol. IV (2023) and Vol. IVa Great Questions (2023), Vol. V and Va (2025)

Author and Editor: United States GovernmentOpen Educational Resource Textbook, Achieving the Dream Grant, Remix 

  • Instructor Materials, Curriculum OER, United States Government
    • exams
    • visual presentations for classroom
    • reviews
    • quizzes
    • handouts
    • charts and diagrams
    • test banks
  • Student Materials
    • handouts
    • charts and diagrams
    • quizzes
    • vocabulary lists
    • .pdf

Author: SCORING Student Success, Vol. I

  •  A faculty training manual for dual credit instructors
  • Copyright 2019

Remix Author and Editor:  Texas State and Local Government Vol. I; Remix author and editor of OER textbook.


Professional Highlights

Austin Community College, Great Question Journey Advisory Committee

Austin Community College, Senior Fellow, The Great Questions Journey Courses

Community College Dual Credit Faculty Training Manual: SCORING Student Success, Vol. I, copyright 2019

APSA Annual Convention Presentation: "Women's Perceptions of Their Political Roles Over the Life Cycle: Insights Through Oral History," Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, 1990

RAND Corporation Finalist Presenter: "The U.S.--Mexico Border: Competing Perspectives of National Security and Domestic Policy," As Member of the Student Working Group of the California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy, Sponsored by the California Institute of Technology and The RAND Corporation, 1988.

Master's Degree Thesis:  "Changing Methods and Philosophies: An Analysis of Capital Punishment From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," Texas Tech University, 1987

Oral History Books:

Our Amazing Grace

Children of the Prairie

The Life and Times of Rev. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Adcock

Textbooks: United States Government; Texas State and Local Government

Publications: WTSU Review of the Arts, Editorial Staff and Contributor

Professional Awards: NISOD National Teaching Excellence Award 2018

Conference Paper & Presentation:  Association of Core Texts Conference, "Dangerous Dialogues: Out-group Identification and Genocide," Spring 2019, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Grants:  Achieving the Dream, Open Educational Resource Development for United States Government 2017; OER Update Grant for United States Government 2019; OER Remix and New Resources for Texas State & Local Government during 2019-2020; OER Update for United States Government 2023; OER Update for United States Government 2025

Fellowship:  Development of OER for GOVT 2306: Texas State and Local Government (2021); Service-Learning Cohort (2021); Senior Fellow Great Questions Journey



Published: May 20, 2025