Ada Ferrer

Ada Ferrer is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University, previously holding a joint appointment at New York University’s History Department and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1995–2024). Her work focuses on slavery, antislavery movements, and revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a particular emphasis on Cuba’s relationship with the U.S. and Haiti.

Her major publications include Insurgent Cuba (1999, Berkshire Book Prize), Freedom’s Mirror (2014, Frederick Douglass Prize), and Cuba: An American History (2021, Pulitzer Prize in History). She has been supported by prestigious institutions like the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current projects include a family memoir exploring revolution and migration, and a study of José Antonio Aponte, an antislavery artist in 19th-century Cuba. She co-curated the 2017–2019 exhibit Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom with Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrié.