Ada Ferrer

Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University.

This article is about Ada Ferrer the historian. For Ada Ferrar the actress, see Ada Ferrar.
Ada Ferrer
Born
Havana, Cuba
NationalityCuban-American
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationVassar College 1984
University of Texas at Austin 1988
Alma materUniversity of Michigan 1995
OccupationHistorian
Years active1995 – present
EmployerNew York University
Notable work
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
AwardsFrederick Douglass Prize, 2015
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize

Early life

She was born in Havana, Cuba and migrated to the United States in 1963. 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.[1]

Career

She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University.[2]

She has won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution.[3][4] The book also won the Friedrich Katz, Wesley Logan, and James 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.[5]

Bibliography
  • Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 [6][7][8]
  • Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution[9][10][11][12]
  • Voices of the Enslaved in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: A Documentary History

References
  1. "Ada Ferrer, Professor Of History". NYU History Department. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  2. "Ada Ferrer". www.afrocubaweb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  3. "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.
  4. "NYU professor wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Yale News. November 6, 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  5. "Berkshire Conference of Women Historians". web.mnstate.edu. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
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