University of New Hampshire Provost to Lead Phillips Exeter Academy

Lisa MacFarlane, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Hampshire, has been selected to be the 15th principal at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. The elite preparatory school was founded in 1781. Dr. MacFarlane will begin her new job on September 1.

Dr. MacFarlane has served on the faculty at the University of New Hampshire since 1987. She is the co-author of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and the co-editor of A Mighty Baptism: Race, Gender, and the Creation of American Protestantism (Cornell University Press, 1996).

Dr. MacFarlane is a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Princeton University in New Jersey. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American culture from the University of Michigan.