Ken Chitwood
Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Study of Religion, Affiliate of USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and author of Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam (University of Texas Press, 2025).
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Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 10min
Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Ken Chitwood, a scholar of religion and author of Borícua Muslims, explores Puerto Rican converts to Islam through multi-sited and digital ethnography. He discusses everyday cosmopolitanism, food and identity tensions, mosque dynamics and solidarities linking Puerto Rico and Palestine. Music and cultural expression also feature as ways communities make meaning.
Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 10min
Ken Chitwood, "Borícua Muslims: Everyday Cosmopolitanism Among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam" (U Texas Press, 2025)
Ken Chitwood, a researcher of Puerto Rican and Latinx Muslim communities, explores multi-sited and digital ethnography of Borícua Muslims. He discusses everyday cosmopolitanism, historical threads of Islam in Puerto Rico, foodscapes and cultural negotiation, intra-community tensions around authenticity, and solidarities linking Puerto Rican and Palestinian anti-colonial struggles.
