Our first speaker, Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and she is a Professor of Early American History at Roger Williams University. Her book, Roger Williams and His World (Broadview Press, 2025), sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. She has published book chapters in edited collections on two seventeenth-century New England dissenters, one on Thomas Morton and one on Roger Williams. Building on her interest in Roger Williams, she has published an article on his wife, Mary Williams in The New England Quarterly. Carrington-Farmer has an active research interest in non-human animal history, specifically equines in colonial America and the early modern Atlantic world. She published an article on the Narragansett Pacer in the Rhode Island History Journal, two book chapters on New England’s eighteenth-century horse and mule trade, and a state of the field article on horses for Oxford Atlantic Bibliographies. She has reviewed books for the Journal of American History, The New England Quarterly, Connecticut History Review, History: Reviews of New Books, Equine History Collective, and The American Historical Review. Carrington-Farmer is active in the field of public history and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale University, and the Mellon Foundation. She was a featured historian in several episodes of the multi-award-winning documentary series, Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village, which premiered on Rhode Island PBS in 2022. Her current book project, Equine Empire: Horses and the Making of the Atlantic World, which received a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research grant, will be published with the University Press of Kentucky next year.