TiffanyFloydLecturer in Modern and Contemporary ArtArt HistoryFacultyTiffany.Floyd@unt.edu 940-369-8527Art Building, Room 244

FacultyArt HistoryAlumna, 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  Board Member, Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey