Carolyn White

Carolyn White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation. Her research and teaching focuses on the intersection of art and archaeology, the archaeology of ephemeral spaces, the materiality of individual lives, and active site archaeology. Her most recent books are The Archaeology of Burning Man (University of New Mexico Press) and Distant Voices: On Steven Seidenberg’s Architecture of Silence (Contrasto Press).

Artist Steven Seidenberg and archaeologist Carolyn White collaborate to image and interpret domestic spaces in occupied buildings, temporary encampments, and other liminal housing in contemporary Italy. Through fine art photography and archaeo/anthropological practices, they explore the ways through which migrants, disenfranchised Italians, and other marginalized populations carve stable homes from abandoned spaces, despite government policies increasingly hostile to their presence and needs.