Tiffiany Howard, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the director for Center of Migration, Demography, and Population Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She earned her dual doctorate degree in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan and is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international security, terrorism, state failure, immigration and refugee policy, and comparative analyses of race, gender, and ethnicity.
Through her research, Dr. Howard has had the privilege of working at and with the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the House Committee on Homeland Security, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Dr. Howard is the recipient of several prestigious grant awards and research fellowships, including the Council on Foreign Relations-International Affairs Fellowship (2019-2020) the Geneva Center for Security Policy-Associate Fellowship (2020) the Asser Institute-Visiting Fellowship (2020) the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation-Senior Research Fellowship (2019) the Faculty Opportunity Award-Center of Excellence Grant (2016) the Department of Education-UISFL Program-Business Spanish Experience Grant (2016) the Black Mountain Institute-Faculty Fellowship (2015) the Ford Foundation-Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship (2013-2014, In Residence at UCLA) the APSA Centennial Center Visiting Scholar Fellowship and the Department of Defense-DARPA Research Fellowship (2008).
She is also the author of The Tragedy of Failure (Praeger Security International/ABC-CLIO, 2010), and Failed States and the Origins of Violence (Routledge, 2014) the co-author of Latinos in Nevada (University of Nevada Press, 2021), and Sex, Power and Politics: Exploring Gender Roles, Identities and Influence throughout History (Palgrave: 2016) and series co-editor of Migration, Demography and Environmental Change: Global Challenges (University of Nevada Press).
Tiffiany is a fitness enthusiast and is a retired IFBB Figure Pro and avid Crossfitter and Burn Bootcamper. She is the proud mother of two very active and precocious toddlers, so she has very little free time, but when she does find a spare moment, she enjoys the most ordinary of things like reading books on just about everything, writing fiction as well as more serious works, watching Netflix, sleeping, and grabbing a five-minute shower.