Ada Ferrer

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| name = Ada Ferrer

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| birth_place = Havana, Cuba

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| nationality = Cuban-American

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| citizenship = United States

| education = Vassar College 1984
University of Texas at Austin 1988

University of Michigan 1995

| occupation = Historian

| years_active = 1995 – present

| employer = Princeton University

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| notable_works = 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

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Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She joined the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July 2024.{{cite web | title=Board approves nine faculty appointments | date=2024-03-29 | url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/29/board-approves-nine-faculty-appointments |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=Princeton University |language=en}} She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.{{cite web |title=The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ada-ferrer |access-date=May 10, 2022 |website=pulitzer.org}}{{Cite web |title=2022 Pulitzer Prize in History Awarded to NYU's Nicole Eustace and Ada Ferrer |url=https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2022/may/2022-pulitzer-prize-in-history-awarded-to-nyu-s-nicole-eustace-a.html |website=.nyu.edu}}{{Cite news |title=2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus' |language=en |work=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097566167/2022-pulitzer-prizes-in-arts-and-letters-go-to-fat-ham-and-the-netenyahus |access-date=2022-05-10}}

Early life

She was born in Havana, Cuba, migrated to the United States in 1963, and grew up in West New York, New Jersey.{{cite magazine |last = Ferrer |first = Ada |title = My Brother's Keeper |magazine = The New Yorker |date = March 1, 2021 |url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/my-brothers-keeper|access-date = March 7, 2021}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://as.nyu.edu/history/people.ada-ferrer.html|title=Ada Ferrer, Professor Of History|publisher=NYU History Department|access-date=2017-07-01}}

Career

She is currently a Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Princetown University. Before joining Princeton, she served as a professor of history and Latin American studies at New York University. {{Cite web|url=http://www.afrocubaweb.com/adaferrer.htm|title=Ada Ferrer|website=www.afrocubaweb.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}}

She won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.{{cite web|title=Congratulations to Ada Ferrer, Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize {{!}} The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History|url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/community/blog/congratulations-ada-ferrer-winner-frederick-douglass-book-prize|website=www.gilderlehrman.org|publisher=Yale University|access-date=30 June 2017|language=en|date=5 February 2016|archive-date=3 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803235735/http://www.gilderlehrman.org/community/blog/congratulations-ada-ferrer-winner-frederick-douglass-book-prize|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=NYU professor wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize|url=http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/06/nyu-professor-wins-frederick-douglass-book-prize|access-date=30 June 2017|work=Yale News|date=November 6, 2015}} 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,{{cite web|title=Berkshire Conference of Women Historians|url=http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/berkshire.html|website=web.mnstate.edu|access-date=30 June 2017}} which was shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill Prize.{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-09-26 |title=US$75k Cundill History Prize shortlist announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/09/26/220826/us75k-cundill-history-prize-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2022-09-26 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}

She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ada-ferrer/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Ada Ferrer}}

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 =

{{cite journal |author=Ferrer, Ada |date=March 1, 2021 |title=My brother's keeper : early in the Cuban Revolution, my mother made a consequential decision |department=Personal History |journal=The New Yorker |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=26–31 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/01/my-brothers-keeper }}

References

=Critical studies and reviews of Ferrer's work=

==''Freedom's mirror''==

{{cite journal|last1=Alexander|first1=William H.|title=Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, written by Ada Ferrer|journal=Journal of Global Slavery|date=1 January 2016|volume=1|issue=1|pages=116–117|doi=10.1163/2405836X-00101007|issn=2405-836X}}
{{cite journal|last1=Rossignol|first1=Marie-Jeanne|title=Freedom's Mirror. Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution|journal=Social History|date=2 January 2016|volume=41|issue=1|pages=108–110|doi=10.1080/03071022.2015.1112986|s2cid=147540496|issn=0307-1022}}
{{cite journal|last1=Schwartz|first1=Stuart B.|title=Ada Ferrer.Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.|journal=The American Historical Review|date=1 October 2016|volume=121|issue=4|pages=1237–1239|doi=10.1093/ahr/121.4.1237|url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/121/4/1237/2581611|language=en|issn=0002-8762}}
{{cite journal|last1=White|first1=Ashli|title=Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution by Ada Ferrer (review)|journal=The William and Mary Quarterly|date=6 August 2015|volume=72|issue=3|pages=540–543|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/587907|access-date=29 June 2017|issn=1933-7698|doi=10.5309/willmaryquar.72.3.0540|s2cid=141586227}}

==''Insurgent Cuba''==

{{cite journal|last1=Fuente|first1=Alejandro De La|title=Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898|journal=Hispanic American Historical Review|date=1 February 2005|volume=85|issue=1|pages=149–151|doi=10.1215/00182168-85-1-149|language=en|issn=0018-2168}}
{{cite journal|last1=Grandin|first1=Greg|title=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|journal=Anthropological Theory|date=1 June 2003|volume=3|issue=2|pages=243–250|doi=10.1177/1463499603003002007|s2cid=73636514|language=en|issn=1463-4996}}
{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Joseph|title=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=Journal of Latin American Studies|date=February 2001|volume=33|issue=1|pages=157–211|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/ada-ferrer-insurgent-cuba-race-nation-and-revolution-18681898-chapel-hill-nc-and-london-university-of-north-carolina-press-1999-pp-xi273-4395-1550-pb-josep-conangla-i-fontanilles-memorias-de-mi-juventud-en-cuba-un-soldado-del-ejercito-espanol-en-la-guerra-separatista-18951898-barcelona-ediciones-peninsula-1998-pp-260-pb-1575-pts-947-/C46409DE68036822F91E00396021B90B|access-date=29 June 2017|issn=1469-767X|doi=10.1017/S0022216X00346041}}