Suzy Castor

Suzy Castor (born 1936) is a Haitian historian, educator and human rights activist.

[1] Castor earned a PhD in history from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

While living in exile in Mexico, she was a professor of political science and of philosophy and letters at UNAM from 1968 to 1986.

In the latter year, following the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier, Castor and her husband Gérard Pierre-Charles returned to Haiti.

[2][4] In 2005, she received the Juan Maria Bandres Prize for the Defense of the Right of Asylum and Solidarity with Refugees.