Nancy Marie White received her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a professor of anthropology at USF and specialist in the archaeology of the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee valley region in northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia. For decades she has led students in field research and excavation, investigating the material culture of all time periods in this region and elsewhere, and working with local communities in public archaeology programs to understand the past. She also trains students to do contract archaeology in the path of proposed construction (including on the USF campus) to prepare them for jobs in the profession. Among White's publications are popular works (e.g., Archaeology for Dummies) and research books on various topics (e.g., Gulf Coast Archaeology and Late Prehistoric Florida [coeditor]). She is the first editor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Eastern United States, which will be reissued in January for the 25th anniversary of its original publication (with a new preface). Also in 2024 will be published her new 2-volume synthesis, Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, which presents the human record and cultural ecology of that region from the first prehistoric people to arrive, probably over 15,000 years ago, through the history of Hurricane Michael in 2018. White has served in various capacities for different professional societies. For the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) she organized two annual meetings (1989 and 2013) in downtown Tampa and worked on the board and committees. Receiving SEAC's Lifetime Achievement Award was a complete surprise to her, and involved recognition by colleagues, former students, and avocational archaeologists.