Program Coordinator
Ken serves as Program Coordinator for the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
He is a Ph.D. candidate with UF’s Department of Religion. His current research interests include global Islam, Islam in the Americas, American religion, the Puerto Rican Muslim community, Christian-Muslim relations, Muslim cosmopolitanism, globalizing the study of religion, ethnographic practice in a digital age, and the interplay of religion and popular culture.
Ken is also a widely published religion newswriter, speaker, and blogger engaging in public and popular representations of the intersection of religion & culture. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Latin American Studies Association, Caribbean Studies Association, Theta Alpha Kappa, serves as Treasurer of the Religion News Association and the Religion News Foundation.
All of his published work — both academic and popular — can be found at www.kenchitwood.com and on Twitter at @kchitwood.