She earned a BA in Archaeology from Tufts University in 2000; an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2004; and an MA and PhD in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and 2012, respectively. She received both a Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation Fellowship and a UNC Royster Society Fellowship for her dissertation research on representations of gender in Late Antique Jewish funerary inscriptions. Carrie has participated in numerous archaeological projects in Italy, Greece, Israel, and Jordan. She is currently a senior staff member with the Petra North Ridge Project and Tall al-Umayri Excavations and is the assistant director of the Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project. Her recent research investigates expressions of religiosity among Roman soldiers in southern Jordan during the fourth century.