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Ada Ferrer

Ada Ferrer

American historian

This article is about Ada Ferrer the historian. For Ada Ferrar the actress, see Ada Ferrar.

Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University, and will join the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July of 2024.[1] She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.[2][3][4]

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Early life

She was born in Havana, Cuba, migrated to the United States in 1963, and grew up in West New York, New Jersey.[5] Ferrer holds an AB degree in English from Vassar College, 1984, an MA degree in history from University of Texas at Austin, 1988, and a PhD in history from the University of Michigan, 1995.[6]

Career

She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University.[7]

She won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.[8][9] The book also won the Friedrich Katz, Wesley Logan, and James A. Rawley prizes from the American Historical Association and the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Haitian Studies Association. Ferrer received the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize for her book Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution 1868–1898,[10] which was shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill Prize.[11]

She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.[12]

Bibliography

Books

  • Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 . University of North Carolina Press, 1998
  • Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2014
  • Cuba: An American History. Scribner, 2021

Essays and reporting

  • Ferrer, Ada (March 1, 2021). "My brother's keeper : early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision". Personal History. The New Yorker. 97 (2): 26–31.

Critical studies and reviews of Ferrer's work

Freedom's mirror
Insurgent Cuba

References

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    "Board approves nine faculty appointments". Princeton University. 2024-03-29. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
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    "The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
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    "2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Awarded to NYU's Nicole Eustace and Ada Ferrer". .nyu.edu.
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    "2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
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    Ferrer, Ada (March 1, 2021). "My Brother's Keeper". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
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    "Ada Ferrer, Professor Of History". NYU History Department. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
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    "Ada Ferrer". www.afrocubaweb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
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    "Congratulations to Ada Ferrer, Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". www.gilderlehrman.org. Yale University. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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    "NYU professor wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Yale News. November 6, 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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    "Berkshire Conference of Women Historians". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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    "US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  12. [12]
    "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ada Ferrer".
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