About

Anne Hoag is associate professor of communications at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching in the Department of Telecommunications focus on media entrepreneurship, telecommunications management and teaching technologies in higher education.

At Penn State, she has served as director of outreach and associate dean of the College of Communications. Before joining the Penn State faculty, she spent a decade in the advertising and cable television industries.

Hoag was general manager of cable systems for TCI, United Artists and Daniels and Associates in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia respectively. Before making a career in cable, she worked in advertising at Leo Burnett in Chicago.

Hoag earned a B.A. at the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.