Dr. Tiffany Nicole Florvil is an associate professor of modern European history and the history of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of New Mexico. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Central Europe (especially Germany and Austria), 19th- and 20th- century Europe, Black Europe, transnationalism, global social movements, and international human rights. In the early 1990s, she began writing her German pen pal, which sparked her fascination with the country. After high school, she spent an exchange year in Hamburg. She then pursued both history and German literature and language as her undergraduate majors and continued graduate work in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of South Carolina.

Tiffany has published numerous articles and books, including Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, which received several awards, and its German translation Black Germany: Schwarz, Deutsch, feministisch – die Geschichte einer Bewegung. Her work has been funded by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Academy in Berlin, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and others. With her writing and her community outreach, she makes her scholarship accessible to diverse public audiences.