Ada Ferrer
American historian
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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.[1] She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.[2][3][4]
University of Texas at Austin 1988
University of Michigan 1995
Ada Ferrer | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 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 |
| 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
Ferrer was born in Havana, Cuba, and migrated to the United States with her mother in 1963 in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She grew up in West New York, New Jersey.[5] She 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
Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Princeton University. Before joining Princeton, she served as a 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]
Keeper of My Kin was a finalist for the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.[13]
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
- Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter. Scribner, 2026
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.