Director, Preservation Studies Program; Professor, History of Art & Architecture
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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 research spans four centuries, focusing on personal adornment and the construction of identity in 18th century England and America, 19th-century ranching in Hawaii, daily life in 1860s Aurora, Nevada, and on the built environment of Black Rock City. Her new research project focuses on squatted buildings and the right to the city in Rome, Italy.
She is the author of three monographs and five edited volumes. 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. Before joining the faculty at Boston University she taught at the University of Nevada, Reno.
She welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in the M.A. in Preservation Studies.
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