IRAAS Conversations Lecture -"Cuba & the Haitian Revolution"
Dr. Ada Ferrer, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University, shares her research which centers on the intellectual, political and social effects of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba and the Atlantic World.

2004 Biography 
Ada Ferrer is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at New York University.  Her research and teaching interests focus on the themes of race and slavery, and nationalism and revolution in the nineteenth-century Caribbean and Atlantic World.  Her first book, Insurgent Cuba:  Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898, earned her the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first publication by a female historian.  Her current research centers on the intellectual, political, and social impact of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1803) in Cuba and the Atlantic World.

"Cuba & the Haitian Revolution" Dr. Ada Ferrer - Spring 2004

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"Cuba & the Haitian Revolution" Dr. Ada Ferrer - Spring 2004

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