19th and 20th Century U.S. History, Race and Migration in the Americas, Mass Criminalization, U.S. Empire, Black Feminist Thought, Black Poetics, Black Marxism and Queer of Color Critiques
19th & 20th Century Black Intellectual History; African-American Sociology of Religion; Black Political Economy & Political Theory; Philosophy of Religion; Critical Phenomenology
Maroon Studies; Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black diasporic literature; Archival Studies; Black radical movement histories
Maroon Studies, Jamaican History, Caribbean History, 18th and 19th-Century African American History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Slavery and Emancipation
20th Century U.S. History, Carceral Studies, Military History, Black Freedom Struggle, Insurgency & Counterinsurgency, Wars on Crime, Drugs, and Terror
20th Century United States social and political history; African American history since 1865; Black women's history; the Black Freedom Struggle; Freedom North studies; United States urban history
Migration and Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Black feminism, Ethnography and Oral History, Performance Studies, Body Studies, Transnationalism, Citizenship
Performances of Race and Gender, Sound Studies, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Black Feminisms, Afro-Diasporic popular musics, popular culture, public humanities, equitable scholarship
Prior to Yale, Tauren studied reparations, transformative housing models, and Black farming in the U.S. South at Brandeis. She currently researches contemporary Black U.S. maroon formations in the 21st century as sites of possibility for freedom-making, relational transformation, and worldmaking.
Black feminist theory, queer theory, 19th and 20th century African American literature, black visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, affect and materiality, faggotry, femmes, sexual subcultures
Afro-Diasporic Cinema, affect and flesh, Black Marxism, anti-colonialism, Black Cinema, Marxism, Anti-colonial Filmmaking, Black Feminism, Third-Worldism
U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, and Body Studies.
19th and 20th Century African American History, African Americans in the Civil War, Civil Rights Movements Within Reconstruction and Jim Crow, The Black Diaspora in the American West, Public Memories of Enslavement and Emancipation.