Ken Chitwood

Dr. Ken Chitwood is a Freie Universität Berlin researcher affiliated with the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, focusing on Islam in the Americas, Latinx Muslim communities, and translocal religious dynamics. He combines ethnographic methods with digital age analyses.

• Ph.D. in American religion and global Islam from University of Florida
• Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Otto Friedrich University Bamberg
• Journalist-fellow at University of Southern California's Center for Religion and Civic Culture

His research spans Muslim cosmopolitanism, Christian-Muslim relations, religion in digital spaces, and Jewish communities in Latin America. Recent publications emphasize Puerto Rican Muslim identity, Islamic philanthropy, and religious intersections in late modernity.

Key article trends reveal his expertise in religion in the Americas through interdisciplinary lenses, examining postcolonial Muslim identities, transnational faith networks, and spiritual responses to globalization. His work appears in journals like International Journal of Latin American Religions and Journal of Muslim Philanthropy.