Angela Zito is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She has also directed the Religious Studies Program off and on for the past fifteen years, and co-founded and co-direct with Faye Ginsburg the Center for Religion and Media. Previously, she has worked as dayside copy editor for The China Daily, China’s English-language newspaper, and then as a “newstaster” for the Reuter’s bureau. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.