Caroline was Director of the American Academy in Rome from 1994 to 1998. She is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America, and has received many fellowships and awards for leadership and teaching. She has published over a hundred articles and books on medieval architecture in France and Italy, including a seminal article on the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. At Duke University, Caroline co-founded a laboratory to train students in the digital technologies appropriate for art and architectural history: https://dahvc.org/about/. She also founded the research project on modeling time and change in cities, Visualizing Venice, with colleagues at the universities of Padua and Venice https://aahvs.duke.edu/node/52346, and The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database, now hosted by the University of Texas in Dallas: https://koseodiah.org/index.php.