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Ada Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of Cuba: An American History, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her earlier books, Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution won multiple prizes, among them the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University and multiple prizes from the American Historical Association. Ferrer has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Social Science Research Council, among many others. Born in Cuba and raised in the United States, Her new book, Keeper of My Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter, which combines history and memoir, will be published by Scribner in May 2026.
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    • Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
    • Written by: Ada Ferrer
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    • Release date: 2024-02-20
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