Charlotte Carrington-Farmer

Professor of History

Charlotte Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History at Roger Williams University, and she specializes in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010. She has published biographies of Thomas Morton and Roger Williams in edited collections. She has a forthcoming book, Roger Williams and His World, coming out this fall with Broadview Press and a forthcoming article on Mary Williams in the New England Quarterly, entitled: “More than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the Founding of Providence.” Dr. Carrington-Farmer has a keen interest in equine history in the early modern Atlantic World. Her research examines the breeding and export of horses from New England to the West Indies and South America and its intersection with enslaved lives and labor. She has published an article entitled: ‘The Rise and Fall of the Narragansett Pacer,’ Rhode Island History, Winter/Spring 2018, Volume 76, Number 1, pp. 1-38. She has written a chapter entitled: ‘Trading Horses in the Eighteenth Century: Rhode Island and the Atlantic World,’ in Kristen Guest and Monica Mattfeld, eds., Equine Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, 1700-Present (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.) She recently published the following chapter: ‘Shipping Mules in the Eighteenth-Century: New England’s Equine Exports to the West Indies,’ in Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Lou Roper, Agnès Delahaye, and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds., Agents of Empires: Companies, Commerce, and Colonies 1500-1800, (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2024.) Dr. Carrington-Farmer has a forthcoming chapter surveying equines in Atlantic history with Oxford University Press: ‘Equine Atlantic: Horses in the Early Modern Atlantic World,’ in Trevor Burnard, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024.) Her book manuscript in progress, which received a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research grant, is tentatively titled: Equine Atlantic: New England’s Eighteenth-Century Horse Trade to the West Indies.