She wrote Black Magic: African American Religion and the Conjuring Tradition (University of California Press, 2003) and (with Nathaniel Deutsch) Black Zion: African American Religions and Judaism (Oxford University Press, 1999). She was a consultant to the National Geographic Channel series Taboo in 2002-03. Contact 610-543-8041 (office), 610-328-8045 (department), ychirea1@swarthmore.edu.