Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico
About
Tiffany N. Florvil is an associate professor of 20th-century European Women's and Gender History at the University of New Mexico. She specializes in the histories of post-1945 Europe, the African diaspora, Black internationalism, as well as gender and sexuality. She has published pieces in the Journal of Civil and Human Rights and The German Quarterly. Florvil has coedited the volume, "Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories," as well as published chapters in Gendering Post-1945 German History and To Turn this Whole World Over. Her manuscript, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement," with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. The book won an Honorable mention from the DAAD/GSA Book Prize in Literature/Cultural Studies and was a Finalist for the ASWAD Outstanding First Book
Current Work:
Dr. Florvil's next sole-authored monograph is tentatively entitled "Borderless and Brazen: The Life and Legacy of May Ayim, 1960-1996." "Borderless and Brazen" is an outgrowth of my current work, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement." It offers the first full-length study on the political life and intellectual corpus of May Ayim. Ayim was one of the most important Black German thinkers, activists, and writers in twentieth-century German history and African diaspora history. In the follow-up to recent global Black Lives Matter movements, she will critically reexamine her ideas and actions along with her disappointments and struggles to gain a more holistic account of her life, and thus, by extension, of Black stories in wider modern German Studies. This project will rely on interdisciplinary and multi-archival approaches to reconsider the contours of German/European Studies/History and Black Diaspora Studies/History.
Research Area(s):
- Intellectual history; gender and sexuality; European Studies; African diaspora studies; human rights
