Munir Jiwa is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Anthropology from Columbia University, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, a BA from SFU, held postdoctoral positions at MIT and at the University of Toronto, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2022. His research interests include Islam and Muslims in the West, media, art and aesthetics, secularism, theological education, religious formation and leadership, religion in the public sphere, and interreligious dialogue.

He received the GTU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015 and was the GTU Distinguished Faculty in 2019.

He is the recipient of foundation awards and grants from the Mellon Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.