Karin White works as lecturer  in the Department of Social Sciences at IT Sligo. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Byzantine Studies from Queen's University Belfast (QUB), an MA in Translation Studies (QUB) and a BA (hons) in Byzantine Studies and Social Anthropology .
      Her doctoral thesis, entitled Gadje and Roma: Ethnic relations in the Byzantine world with  comparison to the social imaginary in modern Greece, researched the perceptions of Roma in the Byzantine Empire with a comparison to such perceptions in modern rural Greece.
       She has undertaken extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Southern Peloponnese and historical research in Turkey in collaboration with the British School of Ankara.          
       Previously, she had studied Social Pedagogy in Munich and worked with refugees, children in residential care and a Waldorf setting for children with additional needs.
       In Ireland, Karin has worked extensively for statutory bodies and NGO's with minority ethnic groups including Asylum Seekers, Roma and Irish Travellers and has set up initiatives such as the Minority Ethnic Advice Clinic East Belfast, Port na Failte Intercultural Resource Centre, the Donegal Intercultural Platform, the Donegal Racist/Sectarian Incident Reporting Scheme, the HSE Interpreting and Translation Services and a vast number of funded projects with the aims of building peace and working towards equality, social justice and integration. She is company secretary to the Board of Directors of Donegal Travellers Project as well as to the Donegal Intercultural Platform.
      Karin has a list of publications such as The imaginary of the stranger, Stories from a room: narrative and identity, Roma in the Byzantine empire, Aspects of Methoni: Roma history in the Southern Peloponnese,   The communist manifesto for young people and more. She also introduced and translated a new, non-racist edition of Herge's Tintin au Congo.  At the moment, she is working on research publications on identity and story telling, English language acquisition for children from non-English speaking families and a new approach to translating Freud, as well as mothering in confined spaces in an international research collaboration.