Ada Ferrer

Cuban-American historian, essayist, and university professor. In 1984 she graduated as an English language teacher from Vassar College. In 1988 she earned a master's degree in history from the University of Texas (Austin). Then, in 1995, she graduated with a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. That same year, she began working at New York University as a tenured professor and since then she has also been director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her articles, related to Cuba, comparative slavery, nationalism and the Revolution, have appeared in different periodicals and she has received various awards and scholarships. In June 2018, José Martí was inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame at the initiative of Esther Allen (a scholar and translator of Martí) and Ada Ferrer (a Cuban historian).