Monica Black is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA. She is the author of Death in Berlin (2010), which was awarded the Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (2010) and the Hans Rosenberg Prize of the Central European History Society (2011). The book was also translated into Russian.

Dr Black co-edited (with Eric Kurlander) Revisiting the 'Nazi Occult': Histories, Realities, Legacies (2015) and, in 2019, she will assume editorship of the journal Central European History.