Ada Ferrer

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]

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

• Alexander, William H. (1 January 2016). "Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, written by Ada Ferrer". Journal of Global Slavery. 1 (1): 116–117. doi:10.1163/2405836X-00101007. ISSN 2405-836X.
• Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne (2 January 2016). "Freedom's Mirror. Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution". Social History. 41 (1): 108–110. doi:10.1080/03071022.2015.1112986. ISSN 0307-1022. S2CID 147540496.
• Schwartz, Stuart B. (1 October 2016). "Ada Ferrer.Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution". The American Historical Review. 121 (4): 1237–1239. doi:10.1093/ahr/121.4.1237. ISSN 0002-8762.
• White, Ashli (6 August 2015). "Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (review)". The William and Mary Quarterly. 72 (3): 540–543. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.72.3.0540. ISSN 1933-7698. S2CID 141586227. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

Insurgent Cuba

• Fuente, Alejandro De La (1 February 2005). "Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898". Hispanic American Historical Review. 85 (1): 149–151. doi:10.1215/00182168-85-1-149. ISSN 0018-2168.
• Grandin, Greg (1 June 2003). "Revolution and the Solution of Ethnographic Embrace: A Discussion Concerning Ada Ferrer's Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 and Charles Hale's Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894–1987". Anthropological Theory. 3 (2): 243–250. doi:10.1177/1463499603003002007. ISSN 1463-4996. S2CID 73636514.
• Smith, Joseph (February 2001). "Ada Ferrer, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 (Chapel Hill, NC, and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), pp. xi+273, $43.95, $15.50 pb. Josep Conangla i Fontanilles, Memorias de mi juventud en Cuba: Un soldado del ejército español en la guerra separatista (1895–1898) (Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 1998), pp. 260, pb. 1575 Pts., £9.47. -". Journal of Latin American Studies. 33 (1): 157–211. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00346041. ISSN 1469-767X. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

References

External links

• Official website

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