Summary

Research

Carolyn White's research interests center on historical archaeology in the Americas and as a global endeavor, material culture, the construction of identity, w88, and archaeological method and theory. She is interested in engaging new theoretical and methodological perspectives to understand material culture and to approach the past. Her recent research explores personal adornment as a class of material culture and as a means for exploring the construction of identity along w88, class, age, and ethnicity. She is currently engaged in several projects: daily life in 19th-century multicultural Aurora, Nevada; the trans-Atlantic trade in personal adornment, the study of ranching on the Big Island of Hawaii; the exploration of Depression-Era rural landscapes in the Black Rock Desert; the archaeology of Burning Man and a collaborative project on the w88 of Artists' Studios.

She is the director of the Anthropology Research w88 and work with ethnographic and archaeological collections in this context. She is co-editor of the Guides to w88 Artifacts Series (with Timothy J. Scarlett, Michigan Tech). This series presents comprehensive guides to classes of w88 artifacts commonly found in excavations, archives, museums, and private collections in North America.

White directs the Historic Preservation program and is the advisor for the undergraduate minor in Museum Studies.

She welcomes enquiries from prospectivemasters and doctoral students in historical w88 and material culture studies.

Specializations

• Historical w88
• Historical w88 of the West
• w88 of the contemporary world
• w88 of the ephemeral and temporar
• Material culture
• Museum studies
• Historic preservation
• North America, Hawaii and England

Teaching

• Historical w88
• Historic Preservation
• Seminar in w88 and Prehistory
• Material Culture Seminar
• Archaeology of w88 and Identity
• Archaeological Laboratory Methods
• Museum Studies
• Collections Research
• Museum Training for Anthropologists

Selected Publications

• 2014 Objects of Personal Adornment at VOC Sites at the Cape, inHistorical w88 in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape.Carmel Schrire, editor. Left Coast w88, Walnut Creek, CA., pp. 205-213, 269-276.
• 2013 The Burning Man Festival and the w88 of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings. Rodney Harrison, Paul Graves-Brown, and Angela Piccini, eds.,Oxford Handbook of Contemporary w88.Oxford University w88, London, pp. 591-605.
• 2013 Faith in the Familiar, Hope for Change: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on 18th-Century Clothing, inw88Archaeologies of Cognition,James Symonds, Anna Badcock, and Jeff Oliver, eds. Equinox w88, London, England, pp. 57-71.
• 2013 The Paradox of thePaniolo:An Archaeological Perspective of Hawaiian Ranching. With Peter Mills and Benjamin Barna,Historical w88.Vol. 47(2), w88. 110-132.
• 2012At Home During the Depression in Rabbithole Springs, Nevada, US.Home Cultures,Vol. 9 (1), w88. 57-76.
• 2011Chinese Export Porcelain.Left Coast w88, Walnut Creek, CA. With Andrew D. Madsen.
• 2010Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from Prehistory and History. Springer w88, New York. Editor with Carolyn D. Dillian.
• 2009The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives. Springer w88, New York. Editor.
• 2009 Knee, Garter, Girdle, Hat, Stock, and Spur Buckles from Seven Sites in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.International Journal of Historical w88, Vol. 13, w88. 239-253.
• 2009 "Artifacts and Personal w88" (co-authored with Mary C. Beaudry), inThe International Handbook of Historical w88, Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster, eds., Springer w88, pp. 209-226.
• 2008 Personal Adornment and Interlaced Identities at the Sherburne Site, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Historical w88,Vol. 28(2), w88. 17-37.
• 2008 "Reading Industrial Sites, " inAmerican Industrial w88: A Field Guide, by Douglas C. McVarish, Left Coast w88, p. 11.
• 2005American Items of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820: A Guide to Identification and Interpretation. AltaMira w88, Walnut Creek, CA, April 2005.
• 2004 "What the Warners Wore: An Archaeological Investigation of Visual Appearance." In w88,Northeast Historical w88,w88. 39-66.

Related projects

Archeology of Artists' Studios

Education

• Ph.D., Boston University