University of North Texas 
Tiffany Floyd
Art History
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Art Building, Room 244
Alumna, M.A. 2012, Art History
About
Tiffany Floyd is a lecturer of modern and contemporary art at the University of North
Texas, Denton, Texas. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University,
New York City, with a dissertation centered on understanding the relationship between
Iraqi modern art and the country's rich antique past. Her dissertation was a co-winner
of the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award.
Floyd's research interests include the politics of archaeology and time, petromodernity,
postcolonial theory, modes of affective reception and the destruction/preservation
of Iraq's cultural heritage. She has participated in several field projects, including
the "Modern Art Iraq Archive," 2010-2011, and the Getty-funded "Mapping Art Histories
in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey," 2020-2023.
Her forthcoming publication, entitled "Absence and Ruin in Hanaa Malallah’s The God
Marduk," is an object biography that contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s
art book "The God Marduk ," 2008.
Affiliations
Faculty Sponsor the UNT CVAD Art History Society
Faculty Member, UNT Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative