Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black is an American historian and Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also directs the Dietrich College Humanities Center. She won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for COMBEE, which reconstructs the Combahee River Raid that Harriet Tubman guided and the freedom it brought to more than 700 enslaved people in South Carolina. Her earlier book, Deep Roots, traces rice farmers in West Africa and the wider African diaspora, and her work also covers Gullah culture.