Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Ph.D. is a professor at Roger Williams University specializing in early American history. Join us to hear her discuss her new book Roger Williams and His World: A History in Documents.

Roger Williams is the most written-about person of 17th-century New England, yet he is notoriously difficult to read. Carrington-Farmer's new book draws together a wide range of primary sources by and about Williams in order to make this history accessible to a broad audience. The book frames Williams within his wider world, encompassing all aspects of his life, from the famous to the lesser known. The included source texts vividly bring to life Williams’s early years in England, his migration to New England, his banishment, the founding of Providence, his revolutionary views on religious freedom and the separation of church and state, and the wide-ranging interactions he had with Indigenous peoples. 

Charlotte Carrington-Farmer received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and specializes in early American history. Her book, Roger Williams and His World (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, Jan. 2025), sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. Her research centers on dissent in seventeenth-century New England, and she has published book chapters on Thomas Morton and Roger Williams, and an article on Mary Williams. She has published a journal article and two book chapters on equines in colonial New England and the early modern Atlantic world. Her current book project is titled: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Horse Trade to the West Indies in the 18th Century. She is active in the field of public history, and has received funding and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale University, the Mellon Foundation, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium.