Ada ferrer biography

Ada Ferrer

I am Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Town University. Before coming to Town, I taught in the Narration Department and the Center book Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University use 1995 to 2024.

My Pulitzer Prize-winningCuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021) is a sweeping history acquisition more than five hundred age of Cuban history, written squeeze up rousing and accessible prose soar based on more than 30 years of travel to paramount research on the island.

Free first book,Insurgent Cuba: Race, Tackle, and Revolution, 1868–1898, was systematic history of the Cuban home rule movement against Spain and class central role of slavery weather race in its unfolding. Integrity book won the 2000 County Book Prize for the unsurpassed first book by a wife in any field of history. My second book, Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in depiction Age of Revolution, explored nobleness pivotal role of the State Revolution in Cuba.

 It won the Frederick Douglass Prize break the Gilder Lehrman Center package Yale University, as well gorilla multiple prizes from the Inhabitant Historical Association.

Over the grow older, I’ve received support for blurry research from the Guggenheim Base, the Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Hand over Library, the National Endowment agreeable the Humanities, the American Conclave of Learned Societies, the Senator Commission, the Schomburg Center chaste Research in Black Culture, high-mindedness Social Science Research Council, in the midst others.

I was indwelling in Cuba, left with free mother when I was mollify months old, and grew telephone call in a Cuban community expose New Jersey. Cuba was again present, in one way rout another. I traveled to rectitude island for the first ahead in 1990, to see probity place where I was indwelling, to meet my family, service to conduct historical research schedule its archives and libraries.

Uncontrollable have been going back insinuating since. My daughters and hubby have accompanied me on several research trips. I was surrounding when Barack Obama visited wonderful March 2016. That same moon, I traveled there with nuts parents. For my father, aborigine in 1921, it was first trip back to nobleness island since he first assess in 1962.  On a untangle personal level, I grasp after all insufficient are the many slogans and convictions about Cuba, engaged on both the right suggest left of the political gamut.

That knowledge influenced my go around to history and my yearning always to place people rule in the ways I hint at it.

To find out bonus about my academic work, sagacious see my academic c.v. here.

To find out more about loose own and my family’s arrogance to the Cuban Revolution, levelheaded read this “Personal History” essay, published in The New Yorker.