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 2024.[1] She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.[2][3][4]
Ada Ferrer | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Cuban-American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Vassar College 1984 University of Texas at Austin 1988 University of Michigan 1995 |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Years active | 1995 – present |
| Employer | New York University |
| Notable work | Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, Cuba: An American History |
| Awards | Frederick Douglass Prize, 2015 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Pulitzer Prize for History, 2022 |
Early life
editShe 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
editShe 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
editBooks
edit- 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
edit- 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.
References
edit- ^ "Board approves nine faculty appointments". Princeton University. 2024-03-29. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
- ^ "The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
- ^ "2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Awarded to NYU's Nicole Eustace and Ada Ferrer". .nyu.edu.
- ^ "2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
- ^ Ferrer, Ada (March 1, 2021). "My Brother's Keeper". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ "Ada Ferrer, Professor Of History". NYU History Department. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "Ada Ferrer". www.afrocubaweb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "NYU professor wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Yale News. November 6, 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "Berkshire Conference of Women Historians". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
- ^ "US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ada Ferrer".
Further reading
editCritical studies and reviews of Ferrer's work
editFreedom's mirror
edit- 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
edit- 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.