
Ada Ferrer
Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History
2018 Guggenheim Fellowship; Dorothy Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library; 2015 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on slavery from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Race, and Resistance; the 2015 Frederich Katz Prize for the best book in Latin American History from the American Historical Association, the 2015 Wesley-Logan Prize for the best book in African Diaspora history from the AHA , and the 2015 James Rawley Prize also from the AHA for the best book in Atlantic World History; the 2015 Haiti Illumination Book Prize from the Haitian Studies Association; Honorable Mention for the PROSE Award in European and World History. John Hope Franklin Prize (Law and Society Association) for the Best Article on Race and Racism, 2013. Berkshire Conference Article Prize, 2013. Paul Vanderwood Prize, Conference on Latin American History, 2013. American Council of Learned Societes/NEH/SSRC Fellowship in Area Studies, 2011-2012, Berkshire Book Prize for Insurgent Cuba (for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history), Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2003-2004, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2000-2001
Books
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Scribner, 2021
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Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of RevolutionCambridge University Press, 2014
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Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2011Translation of Insurgent Cuba
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Paris: Pérseides, 2010French Translation of Insurgent Cuba
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El rumor de Haití en Cuba: Temor, Raza y RebeldíaMadrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2004Coauthored with Consuelo Naranjo Orovio, Ma. Dolores González Ripoll, Gloria García, y Josef Opartny.
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University of North Carolina Press, 1999
"Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic" American Historical Review 117 (2012): 40-66.
"Speaking of Haiti: Slavery and Freedom in Cuban Slave Testimony," in David Geggus and Norman Fiering, eds. The World of the Haitian Revolution (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2009).
"Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery," Review, Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, 31-3-2008.
"The Archive and the Atlantic's Haitian Revolution," in Doris Lorraine Garraway, ed., Tree of Liberty: Atlantic Legacies of the Haitian Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008.)
"Noticias de Haiti en Cuba," Revista de Indias (Madrid), vol. 63, no. 229, 2003, pp. 675-694. (Reprinted in Caminos [Havana], no.31-32, 2004).
"La société esclavagiste cubaine et la révolution haïtienne," Annales, vol. 58, no 2, 2003, pp. 333-356.
"Armed Slaves, the Colonial State, and Nationalist Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba," in Philip Morgan and Chris Brown, eds., Arming Slaves in World History, 2002.
"Cuba, 1898: Rethinking Race, Nation, and Empire," Radical History Review, 73 (January 1999): 22-46.
Contact Information
Ada Ferrer
Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History ada.ferrer@nyu.edu King Juan Carlos Center, Room 525Phone: (212) 998-8626
Office Hours: By appointment only