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
Cundill Prize.[11]
She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.[12]
Bibliography
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ISSN 1469-767X. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
References
- ^ "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. 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".
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