Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black is an American historian who is Professor of History and Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. She won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. She is known for her transnational work on West African rice agriculture and societies, the African diaspora, and Gullah culture.