Peg Harrigan is an experienced educator seeking to inspire students through safe and challenging learning environments. Over her career, she has created interdisciplinary global studies programs, coordinated diversity initiatives, advised human rights programs, and led experiential learning trips. She has over 25 years of experience teaching photography and developing photography curricula at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

1. Peg Harrigan
180 Main Street Andover, MA 01810
Phone: 978.749.4257  Cell: 617.838.7054  E-Mail: pharrigan@andover.edu PH
Objective
Motivated and passionate educator driven to inspire students in the pursuit of academic and personal excellence. My
educational philosophy includes the creation of safe and challenging learning environments in which students are encouraged to
become activated learners and empathic future leaders. Through single and group creative opportunities in observation,
reflection and the development of personal narratives, students examine personal qualities of citizenship and emotional
intelligence that complement innate intelligence, talents and abilities.
Accomplishments
Global Perspectives Program Collaborator 2012-2015
One of three collaborators in the creation of a Learning in the World interdisciplinary program in Brazil, the PLACES Program
(People, Landscape, Arts, Culture, Environment, Sustainability).
Now in its third year, this global studies travel program examines issues of environmental sustainability, the certification process
of forest and agricultural industries, as well as attendant socio-political, cultural and human rights issues. While on sabbatical
leave in winter of 2014-2015, I spent five weeks In Rio de Janeiro and participated in our partner school faculty development. In
the summer of 2015, I was one of two chaperones for seven students on this three-week experiential learning program.
Diversity Program Coordinator 2003-2015
Ten-years experience on the Multicultural Advisory Committee and two years on the Equity, Access and Inclusion Committee,
Working directly with Dean of Community and Multicultural Development and the Community and Multicultural Development
Office to plan and/or facilitate workshops for the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and other diversity challenges
on campus.
Currently in my second year as the advisor to the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, formerly the Gay/Straight Alliance.
Collaborator with the Co-Directors of the Brace Center for Gender Studies.
Member of the Brace Center Advisory Board.
Faculty Advisor 8-Schools Human Rights Program 2010-2012
Volunteered to advise two collaborative 8-School Human Rights Student Leadership Projects with the goal of sharing
educational resources for student exploratory research on global human rights topics with the other participating independent
schools. Advised student presentations for two Human Rights Student Leadership Conferences, 2010 and 2011.
Chaperoned five students attending the Not For Sale Global Forum 2012 in Silicon Valley, California introducing students to
hundreds of modern day abolitionists discussing the world concerns of child soldiers, modern day slavery and human trafficking.
Pecos Pathways Team Leader 2001-2002
Chaperoned two summer student-learning programs for the Robert S. Peabody Museum and the Pecos Pathways Program in
Jemez and Pecos, New Mexico.
Curator of Community Exhibitions at Phillips Academy 1995-present
Women in the Art Department: Past and Present, Steinbach Exhibition Area, George Washington Building. 1995-1996
Who Are We? A Community Exhibition, Gelb Gallery, George Washington Building. 2008
COED@40 International Invitational Alumni Exhibition in Steinbach Exhibition Area. 2013
Girls’ Leadership Project Exhibition, Gelb Gallery, George Washington Building. 2013
Inaugural Biennial LitW Exhibition, Steinbach Exhibition Area, George Washington Building. Upcoming Spring 2016

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Photography Instructor 1992-to present
Created and developed Phillips Academy’s first Digital Photography Curriculum.
Revised the Art Department’s Photography Elective Program courses to examine historical and contemporary studies of the
landscape/environment; portrait/self--portrait and the relationship of self and other; global models of documentary traditions as
agents of social and cultural transformation.
Education
Mastersof Fine Arts: Interdisciplinary Arts 1988-1990
University of Connecticut, Storrs. Recipient of a Fine Arts Department Merit-based Teaching Fellowship.
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Printmaking 1977-1980
Tufts University, Medford, MA.
Diploma and Fifth Year Certificate: Photography 1977-1980
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Additional Educational Experience
Professor of Photography 1991-1992
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Taught all levels of traditional film photography and foundation 2D design. Designed the school’s first color darkroom and made
design recommendations to improve the existing black and white darkroom. Advised students in the fine arts program.
Assistant to the Graduate Fine Art Program Coordinator 1988-1991
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Assistant to the Graduate Program Coordinator and responsible for all program inquiries; received and organized applicant
materials for departmental review and assessment.
Photography Instructor in the Department of Fine Arts
Color Photography Instructor 1983-1988
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Taught evening and summer color photography classes in the continuing education program. Designed and supervised the
construction of the school’s first color darkroom.
Awards
Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship and Kate Morse Scholarship for Women, Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1989.
Massachusetts Cultural Council/New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists in
Photography 1995.
Zukerman Fellowship for Teaching and Learning Foundation Trustees of Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 2011.

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