Ada Ferrer (Chair)
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University
Ada Ferrer is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. Born in Cuba and based in the US, Ferrer taught in the History Department and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University for almost 30 years, from 1995 to 2024. Her thematic interests lie in the histories of slavery, antislavery, and emancipation, as well as in the comparative and transnational study of revolutions. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Cundill History Prize finalist Cuba: An American History (Scribner). Her other books include Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898, winner of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman in any field of history, and Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution, which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University as well as multiple prizes from the American Historical Association.
Sunil Amrith
Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, Yale University
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University, and Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He also serves as the Henry R. Luce Director of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Amrith is the author of five books, most recently The Burning Earth (W.W. Norton and Allen Lane, 2024), selected as a “book of the year” by The New Yorker and The New Statesman in 2024. It is being translated into 10 languages. Amrith is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and recipient of the 2022 Heineken Prize in History and the 2024 Fukuoka Academic Prize.
François Furstenberg
Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
François Furstenberg is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, where his research focuses on Early America and the Atlantic World. Before moving to Baltimore, he taught for eleven years at the Université de Montréal. He is particularly interested in approaching US history from broadly transnational perspectives, though his scholarship also addresses historiography, geography, and memory. Alongside, he has written essays on the American university, and currently serves as the secretary of the Johns Hopkins AAUP chapter. He is the author of When the United States Spoke French (2015, Penguin).
Afua Hirsch
Award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster,
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work on culture, identity and social justice. She presents flagship BBC documentary Africa Rising, the global series Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson, and the podcast Legacy, which explores the contemporary legacy of historical figures, and is founder of her own production company Born in Me Productions. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (2018), Equal To Everything (2019) and Decolonising My Body, A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty (2023). A journalist for more than twenty years, she is a former Guardian correspondent, Associate Editor at Vogue, and professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
Francesca Trivellato
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Francesca Trivellato is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. She couples her empirical research with a broad interest in the reasons why and the ways
in which we study the past. Her publications include The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period (Yale University Press, 2009) and The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells us about the Making of European Commercial Society (Princeton University Press, 2019).
