Ada Ferrer


Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She was born in Havana, Cuba and migrated to the United States in 1963.

Career

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.
She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University.
She has won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize 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 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..