Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University, teaching there since 1995.
Her previous works include Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, which won the 2000 Berkshire Book Prize, and Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize and multiple American Historical Association awards.
Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, she has conducted research on the island regularly since 1990, bringing both scholarly expertise and personal connection to her historical work.
