She is the award-winning author of Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad (Duke University Press 2017; Clifford Geertz Prize 2018), which centered the Ifá/Orisha religion in the Black radical tradition and Trinidad’s Black Power revolution to illuminate practices and performances of decolonization in the post-colonial Caribbean. You can read the introduction to Spiritual Citizenship here.

Castor’s writings can be found in Cultural Anthropology, Fieldwork in Religion, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, and The Black Scholar. Their current research focuses on an exploration of the spiritual ontologies and epistemologies of Black spiritual praxis as shifting our centers of being and ways of knowing towards collective care, healing, and social transformation. As part of this larger project they are building Digital Ancestral Altars: Remembrances of Trinidad Ifá/Orisha Elders (funded by a Community Stories grant from The Crossroads Project, Princeton University), a digital multi-modal repository and archive, to commemorate Trinidad’s ancestral Ifá/Orisha elders.

She recently held a position as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies and affiliated with NULab, Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University.