Deborah Hoag
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 Government, Open 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
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