Graduate Students

Black British History, Motherhood, Body Politics, Racial Injustice, and Early Modern Legal History

19th & 20th Century Black Intellectual History; African-American Sociology of Religion; Black Political Economy & Political Theory; Philosophy of Religion; Critical Phenomenology

Black Studies, Black Feminist Theory, 20th-century African American women’s history, oral history, public humanities

Black and women composers, Black feminism, 20th and 21st century music, neoromantic music, literature, Black Chicago Renaissance, American song

Contemporary art, activist artistic response, HIV/AIDS scholarship, critical race studies, queer theory

American Religious History

Black Feminist Theory; 19th Century to 21st Century African American Poetry; Speculative Fiction; Eco-Criticism; Eco-Poetics

African Diasporic Art; Modern; Contemporary; African American Art

Black studies, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Queer theory, and Sound Studies

Black Europe; Black transnationalism; African-American travel, particularly in Europe; postcolonial theory; memory studies

Migration and Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean and Latin American Studies, Black feminism, Ethnography and Oral History, Performance Studies, Body Studies, Transnationalism, Citizenship

Race and racial ideology, culture and media, mechanisms of racial stratification

Black Religious Performance, Material and Visual Culture, African American Childhoods, Death and Racialized Terror

African American gospel traditions, history of the black church, 20th and 21st century popular music, celebrity studies, media studies, black theology

Portraiture, contemporary art, critical theory, the long nineteenth century, the Haitian Revolution, the Caribbean, the US South, New Orleans

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

Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Trans Studies, and Religious Studies. 

18th and 19th-century Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History and Literature, Slavery and Emancipation

Political Anthropology, Afro-pessimism, Post-Industrial Landscapes, Urban Dispossession, and the Racialized Production of the Underclass

Black radio history; public humanities; sound studies; radio studies; media studies; new media studies; Black feminist theory; affect theory

Black Queer Studies, Black Feminism, Archival Studies, HIV/AIDS Scholarship

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.