Ada Ferrer

Ada Ferrer ( Havana , June 17 , 1962 ). Cuban-American historian , essayist and university professor .

Summary

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• 1 Career path
• 2 Publications
• 3 Work on José Martí
• 4 Sources

Career path

• 1984 – Graduated as an English Language Teacher from Vassar College.
• 1988: Master of History at the University of Texas( Austin ).
• 1995: Graduated with a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.
• 1995: begins work at New York University
• 1995: Professor of History at that university.
• 1995: director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. ^[1]

She is co-author, together with

• Consuelo Naranjo-Orovio,
• María Dolores González Ripio,
• Gloria García and Joseph Opartrny from The Rumor of Haitiin Cuba : fear, race and rebellion ( Madrid : CSIC, 2004). ^[1]

His articles have appeared in different periodicals and he has received various awards and scholarships. ^[1]

Publications

• Insurgent Cuba: race, nation and revolution (1868-1898).
  • Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution. 1868-1898.
    The result of an extraordinary investigation, very solid and documented, which as its central content highlights the participation of blacks and mulattos in the Cuban revolutions between 1868 and 1898, as well as its implications in the formation of the nation and in racial constructions , through the presentation of a huge mass of actions, facts, perceptions and ideas. It makes it easier to find more forces to finish walking the path of the total elimination of racism and full national integration.
    This book won the Berkshire Book Prize in 2000. ^[2]
• The rumor of Haiti in Cuba: fear, race and rebellion(Madrid: CSIC, 2004), co-authored with Consuelo Naranjo-Orovio, María Dolores González Ripio, Gloria García and Joseph Opartrny.

His articles have appeared in different periodicals and he has received various awards and scholarships.

• 1999: “Cuba, 1898: rethinking race, nation, and empire”, article published in the journal Radical History Review, 73, pp. 22-46; January 1999.
• 2002: “Armed slaves, the colonial state, and nationalist revolution in nineteenth-century Cuba”, article published in the book by Philip Morgan and Chris Brown (editors): Arming slaves in world history; 2002.
• 2003: “La société slavagiste cubaine et la révolution haïtienne”, article published in the magazine Annales, volume 58, no. 2, pp. 333-356; 2003.
• 2003: «News from Haiti in Cuba», article published in the Revista de Indias(Madrid), volume 63, nº 229, pp. 675-694; 2003.
  * Reprinted in Caminos magazine , No. 31-32; Havana, 2004.
• 2008: “Cuban slavery and Atlantic antislavery”, article published in the Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, March 31, 2008.
• 2008: “The Archive and the Atlantic’s Haitian revolution”, article published in the book by Doris Lorraine Garraway (editor): Tree of Liberty: Atlantic Legacies of the Haitian Revolution. Charlottesville ( Virginia ): University of Virginia Press, 2008.
• 2009: “Speaking of Haiti: slavery and freedom in Cuban slave testimony” ,, article published in the book by David Geggus and Norman Fiering (editors): The world of the Haitian revolution. Bloomington ( Indiana ): University of Indiana Press, 2009.
• 2012: “Haiti, free soil, and antislavery in the revolutionary Atlantic”, article published in the American Historical Review, 117, pp. 40-66; 2012.

Work on José Martí

In June 2018, José Martí was inducted into the New York Hall of Fame for Writers by an initiative of Esther Allen (a scholar and translator of Martí) and Ada Ferrer (a Cuban historian).