Pulitzer Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 109 (2025) Winner
Edda L. Fields-Black
エッダ・エル・フィールズ＝ブラック
Edda L. Fields-Black
Aliases:
Edda Fields-Black / Edda L. Fields
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Miami, Florida
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English, Gullah, Krio
- Residence History
- Miami, Florida, U.S. → Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Career
- Occupations
- Historian, Professor, Author
- Active Years
- 2001-2025
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University, Director, Dietrich College Humanities Center
- Influenced By
- Steven Feierman, R. Hunt Davis
- Nominations
- Mark Lynton History Prize shortlist (2025), ASALH Book Prize shortlist (2025), James A. Rawley Prize Honorable Mention (2025)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart | — | High School | Diploma | — | United States |
| Emory University | — | English and History | BA | — | United States |
| University of Florida | — | History | MA | — | United States |
| University of Pennsylvania | — | History | MA, PhD | — | United States |
Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart
High School
Degree:
Diploma
Year of Graduation:
1989
Country:
United States
Emory University
English and History
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
University of Florida
History
Degree:
MA
Country:
United States
Under mentorship of R. Hunt Davis
University of Pennsylvania
History
Degree:
MA, PhD
Year of Graduation:
2001
Country:
United States
Advisor: Steven Feierman, Thesis: Rice farmers in the Rio Nunez region
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pulitzer Prize for History | COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | History | Columbia University | Winner (shared) |
| 2025 | Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize | COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | — | Gilder Lehrman Institute | Winner |
| 2025 | Tom Watson Brown Book Award | COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | — | — | Winner |
| 2024 | George C. Rogers Jr. Award | COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | — | South Carolina Historical Society | Winner |
| 2024 | Marsha M. Greenlee History Award | COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War | — | — | Winner |
Pulitzer Prize for History
2025
Work:
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Category:
History
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
Winner (shared)
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
2025
Work:
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Organization:
Gilder Lehrman Institute
Result:
Winner
Tom Watson Brown Book Award
2025
Work:
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Result:
Winner
George C. Rogers Jr. Award
2024
Work:
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Organization:
South Carolina Historical Society
Result:
Winner
Marsha M. Greenlee History Award
2024
Work:
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Pulitzer Prize for History
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
2024 HistoryBased on over 175 U.S. Civil War Pension Files, reconstructs lives of 756 enslaved who freed themselves in the Combahee River Raid. Fullest account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service.
Harriet TubmanCombahee River RaidBlack FreedomCivil War
Adaptations
- [Art exhibition] Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War / Vanessa Thaxton Ward (2024)
Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
2008 HistoryChronicles development of tidal rice-growing technology by West African Rice Coast inhabitants. First to apply comparative historical linguistics to Atlantic languages.
Rice cultivationWest AfricaAfrican Diaspora
Rice: Global Networks and New Histories
2015 HistoryCo-edited with Francesca Bray et al. First step toward global comparative history of rice.
Global rice historyCapitalism
Bibliography
- COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
- Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
- Rice: Global Networks and New Histories
- Before 'Baga': Settlement Chronologies of the Coastal Rio Nunez Region
- Rice and Rice Farmers in the Upper Guinea Coast and Environmental History
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Interdisciplinary methodologiesHistorical linguisticsEnvironmental historyEthnographic fieldwork
- Recurring Motifs
- West African rice agricultureAfrican diasporaGullah cultureSlavery
Health
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Breast cancer不明Survivor
Legacy
Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian known for transnational work on West African rice agriculture, African diaspora, and Gullah culture.
Trivia
- Direct descendant of Hector Fields, a formerly enslaved man who self-liberated and participated in the Combahee River Raid.
- Breast cancer survivor.
- Paternal grandparents were Gullah speakers from Green Pond, South Carolina.
- Married to historian Samuel Black, with two children.