Ada Ferrer Explained

Ada Ferrer
Birth Place:	Havana, Cuba
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 Works:	Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution,
Awards:	Frederick Douglass Prize, 2015 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize Pulitzer Prize for History, 2022

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 .^{[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
• . Scribner, 2021

Essays and reporting

• Ferrer, Ada . March 1, 2021 . . Personal History . The New Yorker . 97 . 2 . 26–31 . 2024-03-30-->.

Further reading

Critical studies and reviews of Ferrer's work

Freedom's mirror

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

Insurgent Cuba

• Fuente. Alejandro De La. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898. Hispanic American Historical Review. 1 February 2005. 85. 1. 149–151. 10.1215/00182168-85-1-149. en. 0018-2168.
• Grandin. Greg. 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. 1 June 2003. 3. 2. 243–250. 10.1177/1463499603003002007. 73636514. en. 1463-4996.
• Smith. Joseph. 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. February 2001. 33. 1. 157–211. 29 June 2017. 1469-767X. 10.1017/S0022216X00346041.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Board approves nine faculty appointments . 2024-03-29 . 2024-03-30 . Princeton University . en.
2. Web site: The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History . May 10, 2022 . pulitzer.org.
3. Web site: 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Awarded to NYU's Nicole Eustace and Ada Ferrer . .nyu.edu.
4. News: 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus' . en . NPR.org . 2022-05-10.
5. Ferrer . Ada . My Brother's Keeper . The New Yorker . March 1, 2021 . March 7, 2021.
6. Web site: Ada Ferrer, Professor Of History. NYU History Department. 2017-07-01.
7. Web site: Ada Ferrer. www.afrocubaweb.com. en. 2017-06-30.
8. Web site: Congratulations to Ada Ferrer, Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. www.gilderlehrman.org. Yale University. 30 June 2017. en. 5 February 2016. 3 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160803235735/http://www.gilderlehrman.org/community/blog/congratulations-ada-ferrer-winner-frederick-douglass-book-prize. dead.
9. News: NYU professor wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. 30 June 2017. Yale News. November 6, 2015.
10. Web site: Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. web.mnstate.edu. 30 June 2017.
11. Web site: 2022-09-26 . US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced . 2022-09-26 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
12. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ada Ferrer.