Emma Herman (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University. She is an Americanist with a background in carceral studies, currently studying U.S.-Native relations and the history of the American West. Her dissertation explores the social, legal, and spatial relationships of settlers and Natives in the area variously organized as Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory, and the state of Oklahoma from break-up of treaty-making to the formal reconstitution of Native governments. Her other fields of interest include critical geography, political theory, environmental history, and the digital humanities. Prior to graduate school, Emma worked at the Wylie Agency in New York and with the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based journalism non-profit that documents the pattern and practice of police abuse, including the history of torture, in that city. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 2017 with a B.A. in History and minors in philosophy and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.