Florvil receives prize for work on bio of Black activist, poet

Posted: May 26, 2022

Tiffany Florvil, associate professor of History, is one of 20 recipients of the Berlin Prize for fall 2022 from the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Florvil will work on a biography of the prominent Black German poet and activist May Ayim. The biography, titled Borderless and Brazen: The Life and Legacy of May Ayim, 1960-1996, will offer the first full-length study on Ayim’s political and intellectual corpus.

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