His first book, Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean: African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trindad and Tobago (2011), is a comparative historical ethnography of African and Hindu traditions of trance performance and spirit mediumship in the southern Caribbeann and his forthcoming book project, Sexing the Citizen in the Shadows of Globalization: Queer Dispatches from Trinidad and Tobago, is a person-centered ethnographic study of the politics of sexuality and citizenship in the Caribbean and beyond. McNeal is a 2015-6 Fellow of the Landes Memorial Research Fund.