Edda L. Fields-Black

Historian and author

Edda L. Fields-Black is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and director of its Dietrich College Humanities Center. Her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War shared the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History. She is a descendant of a soldier who fought in the raid.