Tiffany Packer

Tiffany Packer currently serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair of History, Political Science, Geography, and African American Studies at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.  In 2019-2020, she was named FAMU’s Teacher of the Year. Packer has done extensive research on the 1979 Greensboro Massacre and has a particular focus on Post-Civil Rights activism in local, black, working-class communities. Her forthcoming book, entitled The History and Afterlife of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, published with Routledge Press, will be available beginning Summer 2026.  Some of her most recent projects include Public History approaches to problems of policing in communities of color.  More recently, Packer independently founded the Underground School, which is an independent, virtual educational program committed to the teaching of African and African American History.