Ken Chitwood is a religion scholar, PhD student & teaching assistant fellow at University of Florida studying Religion in the Americas and Global Islam (with the Center for Global Islamic Studies) with interests including Islam in the Americas, glocalization, transnationalism, intersections of religion & culture, Christian-Muslim relations, global Christianity, Islamic minorities, and theories of religion, & ethnographic methods (including digital ethnography) in a global age. He is also fascinated by the intersection of religion & popular culture and writes & speaks on this topic as both an academic and a journalist covering 'the god beat.’ (see his blog Faith Goes Pop or visit KenChitwood.com).