Carolyn L. White

Carolyn L. White is director of the Preservation Studies Program and Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. Her scholarship focuses on cultural heritage, the materiality of daily life, the built environment, active site archaeology, and the intersection of and collaboration between art and archaeology. Her most recent books are The Archaeology of Burning Man (University of New Mexico Press, 2022) and Distant Voices: On Steven Seidenberg’s Architecture of Silence (Contrasto Press, 2024), the latter with her frequent collaborator, photographer Steven Seidenberg. Her current research focuses on squatted buildings and the right to the city in Rome, Italy.