Carolyn L. White is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Archaeology at Boston University, where she is the Director of Preservation Studies and is an Urban Fellow for the Initiative on Cities. She has written several books and numerous articles on the built environment, material culture, art, and archaeology. Her research has been funded through various agencies including the Wenner-Gren Foundation and Fulbright. Known as a pioneer of active site archaeology, a rising subfield of archaeology that focuses on the modern world,

she published The Archaeology of Burning Man (UNM Press, 2020) and is currently working on a project about domestic spaces in reoccupied industrial buildings in contemporary Rome.