Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University. Early life. She was born in Havana, Cuba, migrated to the United States in 1963, and grew up in West New York, New Jersey. 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. Career. 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 A. 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". She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.