Advisor:
Joshua Piker
Current Research:
Early America, Native American / Indigenous Peoples, Legal History
Bio
Bennett Herson-Roeser graduated from Carleton College in 2018 with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Political Economy (with a focus on American Public Policy), receiving honors in his major, for his writing portfolio, and for his senior thesis, “Rescuing Tocqueville from His Democratic Reader.” Supported by Carleton’s history department, his independent research projects into the early American territorial system during his senior year profoundly influenced his interest in settler colonial processes and epistemology, in addition to providing an intellectual home outside his major. At William & Mary, these projects have blossomed into a research paper on the relationship between discursive representations of Black, Indigenous, and white settler identities in the Northwest Territory. His current research continues to explore a “vast” early America, examining a spectrum of “unfreedom” generated from competing Indigenous and colonial regimes of the Mississippi River Valley. Currently, he works as an editorial apprentice at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
