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

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. She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book ''Cuba: An American History''.

Early life

She was born in Havana, Cuba, migrated to the United States in 1963, and grew up in

West New York, New Jersey West New York is a town in the northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, situated upon the New Jersey Palisades. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 52,912. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates ...

. Ferrer holds an AB degree in English from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely follo ...

, 1984, an MA degree in History from

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, 1988, and a PhD in History from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, 1995.

Career

She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at

. She has won the 2015

Frederick Douglass Prize The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University Yale University is a Private unive ...

for her book ''Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution''. The book also won the Friedrich Katz, Wesley Logan, and

James A. Rawley James A. Rawley (November 19, 1916 - November 29, 2005) was professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He was a specialist in the American Civil War, American race-relations and the life of Abraham Lincoln. His ''The Tran ...

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 The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes are awarded each year by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Nominees must be women normally resident in North America who have published a book in the previous year. One prize re ...

for her book ''Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution 1868–1898,'' which was shortlisted for the 2022

Cundill Prize The Cundill History Prize (formerly the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature) was founded in 2008 by Peter Cundill to recognize and promote literary and academic achievement in history. The prize is presented annually to an author who has publis ...

. She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

Bibliography

* ''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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrer, Ada 1962 births Living people 21st-century American historians Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni Vassar College alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni New York University faculty People from West New York, New Jersey Historians from New Jersey