Edda L. Fields-Black

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  1. "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice" September Tour of West African Rice Fields. Requiem for Rice.
  2. 1 2 3 "In researching her Pulitzer-winning book, CMU's Fields-Black discovered a family connection". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Archived from the original on 2025-05-08. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  3. 1 2 3 Report, Miami Times Staff (2025-05-13). "Miami historian Edda L. Fields-Black wins Pulitzer Prize for book on Harriet Tubman". The Miami Times. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  4. 1 2 3 "Miami native, daughter of Black historian wins Pulitzer for history". Miami Herald . May 12, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 Hamaludin, Mohamed. "Dorothy Fields: Archivist who ensured key part of Miami's history no longer forgotten". South Florida Times. Vol. 35, no. 20.
  6. 1 2 Edda L. Fields-Black biography.
  7. Carrollton Alumna Dr. Edda Fields-Black '89 Awarded 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History. Carrollton School.
  8. Fields, Edda L. 2001. Rice farmers in the Rio Nunez region: A social history of agricultural technology and identity in coastal Guinea, ca. 2000 BCE to 1880 CE . Doctoral dissertation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
  9. Edda Fields-Black Named Director of the Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon University News. July 2024.
  10. An Interview With Dr. Edda Fields Black, Author of Deep Roots. Afroculinaria. April 5, 2012.
  11. 1 2 Weaver, Delani (2024-07-07). "Edda Fields-Black Named Director of The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University | ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month" . Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  12. O'Driscoll, Brian. (Feb 12, 2019). Symphonic Work In Pittsburgh Honors Enslaved Africans On Rice Plantations. WESA FM.
  13. Edda Fields-Black Wins Pulitzer For Groundbreaking Book On Harriet Tubman's Combahee River Raid. Black Enterprise. May 2025.
  14. Wizevich, Eli. "See the Artworks That Explore the Forgotten History of Harriet Tubman's Civil War Triumphs". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  15. "Picturing Freedom: Visually Retracing the Freedom Seekers' Journey Through Art | Gibbes Museum Programs & Lectures". www.gibbesmuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  16. Review of Deep Roots. American Historical Review. 2015.
  17. The Gullah Geechee people.
  18. Edda Fields-Black Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine . Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Arts in Society.
  19. Fields, Edda L. Before "Baga": Settlement Chronologies of the Coastal Rio Nunez Region, Earliest Times to c.1000 CE. In: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2004), pp. 229-253. Boston University African Studies Center.
  20. "Distinguished Speakers Series: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black". Middleton Place. Retrieved 2025-08-09.
  21. https://slavedwellingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ConferenceProgramAug31.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  22. Rutkoski, Rex (Feb 16, 2013). History center's Samuel Black has found his calling. Trib Live.
  23. "Samuel Black and Edda Fields-Black". storycorps.org. Retrieved 2020-08-09.

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    Edda L. Fields-Black
    Edda L. Fields-Black Books and Books Miami March 2024.jpg
    Fields-Black in March 2024
    Born
    Edda L. Fields

    Miami, Florida, U.S.
    NationalityAmerican
    Occupation(s)Historian, Professor, Author
    SpouseSamuel Black
    Awards Pulitzer Prize for History (2025)
    Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (2025)
    Tom Watson Brown Book Award (2025)
    Academic background
    Alma mater Emory University (BA)
    University of Florida (MA)
    University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD)
    Thesis Rice farmers in the Rio Nunez region: A social history of agricultural technology and identity in coastal Guinea, ca. 2000 BCE to 1880 CE  (2001)
    Doctoral advisor Steven Feierman