[1] They are currently the 2020–2021 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St.
[2] Their long-term projects, Every Breath We Drew[3] and To Survive On This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults (with Vanessa Fabbre),[4] have been published as books and toured the US as exhibitions, including at Minneapolis Institute of Art[5] and George Eastman Museum (where it is currently on show).
[11] Of Every Breath We Drew, begun in 2011, Dugan has said "The people I was drawn to photograph embody a gentle kind of a masculinity, whether they are male or female, gay or straight.
"[12] "Dugan invites the viewer to reflect on her vision of the masculine identity" while the work "also questions the collective idea of gender and sexuality—specifically what it means to be a man.
[17][20] Dugan was the 2020–2021 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St.