Maggie Castor

Maggie is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Their research focuses on what constitutes political relations with particular attention to Indigenous | settler contexts. In their dissertation, Preserving Peoples: Foresight as a Prerequisite Political Capacity, they explicate distinct modes of foresight within social contract theory and Indigenous resurgence as a central capacity for partaking in collective preservation and trans/national engagements. This project includes attention to intergenerational pedagogies for developing political capacities. 

Selected Presentations

• “Visiting and the Cultivation of Foresight: Intergenerational and Trans/National Practices for Sustaining Peoples.” Committee on Native American and Indigenous Philosophers Panel. American Philosophical Association- Eastern Division Meeting. Baltimore, MD. January 2026. 
• “Visiting: An Intergenerational Pedagogy of Foresight Within Indigenous Resurgence.” philoSOPHIA- Making, Doing, and Sensing. Mount Royal University. March 2024.
• “Foresight.” Decolonial Concepts of Territory, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination. MANCEPT Workshops. Manchester Centre for Political Theory. University of Manchester. June 2023.

Selected Workshops

• Northeast Workshop to Learn About Multicultural Philosophy (NEWLAMP) NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty on Native American, Indigenous, and Land-Based Social and Political Philosophy. Northeastern University. June 2024.
• Feminist Decolonial Politics- A Decolonial Thought Workshop: Jasbir Puar. University of Buffalo. June 2024.
• Collegium Phaenomenologicum- Critical Phenomenology: Rethinking Politics, Affect, and Normativity. Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy. July 2019.
• Feminist Decolonial Politics- A Decolonial Thought Workshop: Audra Simpson. University of North Carolina- Charlotte. May 2019.