Graduate Students

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

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

Maroon Studies; Fugitivity Studies; 19th - 21st Century African American and Black diasporic literature; Archival Studies; Black radical movement histories

African American Political Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Black Relision in Social Movements

Racial Capitalism, Policing, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, State Violence

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

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

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

19th-Century African American Ecopoetics and Georgia Douglas Johnson.

African American History; Southern History; Black Women’s History, Social Movement History, History of Consumption

19th-Century American and African American Literature, Early American Literature, Christian Theology, Violence, Critical Race Studies, Black Studies

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

17th and 18th-Century African American History, Caribbean History, African Diaspora Studies, Black Studies, Economic History

Race, Gender; African Diaspora; Citizenship; Education; Multimodal Ethnography

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 Feminism, Black Theories, Oral Histories, Economic History, Economics, Black Studies

Black feminist theory, Black feminist geographies, Black studies, critical race theory, alter/native anthropology