Ada Ferrer

Ada Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, where she has taught since 1995. She is the author of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, which won the 2000 Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, which won the Frederick Douglass Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University, as well as multiple prizes from the American Historical Association. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Hill, the American Historical Review, and she has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and more. Born in Cuba and raised in the US, she has been traveling to and conducting research on the island regularly since 1990. For more information, visit her website at adaferrer.net and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @Adita_Ferrer.