Ferrer, Ada

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Ferrer, Ada
Date of birth
1962-06-17
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Cuba--Foreign relations
Education, Higher
Cuba
Nationalism
Revolutions
Slavery
Occupation
College teachers
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 51866479
Wikidata: Q28457176
Library of congress: n 99006539
Sources of Information
  • Email correspondence, 16 Dec. 2020(full name: Ada Ferrer, born 1962)
  • Her Freedom's mirror, 2014:ECIP title page (Ada Ferrer) data view (born June 17, 1962; professor of History and Latin American Caribbean Studies at New York University, where she has taught since 1995; author of Insurgent Cuba : Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898)
  • New York University Website, Jan. 27, 2015(Ada Ferrer is Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies; AB in English from Vassar College, an MA in History from the University of Texas at Austin, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan; she has been teaching at NYU since January 1995)
  • Dept. of History faculty page (Ada Ferrer; research interests: Cuba, comparative slavery, nationalism, revolution ( (New York University website, 13 April 2021:) )
  • Her Ambivalent revolution, 1999:CIP t.p. (Ada Ferrer) CIP acknowledgements (husband's name is Gregg Van Ryzin)

Wikipedia description:

Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She joined the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July 2024. She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.

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