Munir Jiwa
Founding Director, Center for Islamic Studies;
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Anthropology
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies (2022)
Faculty, UC Berkeley, Othering & Belonging Institute
Distinguished Faculty Award 2019 (Video of Lecture)
Winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award 2015
Post-Doctoral and Teaching Positions:
- MIT (2004-2005)
- University of Toronto (2005-2007)
Grants Received:
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Ford Foundation
- Haas Fund
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Social Science Research Council
PhD, MPhil, Columbia University
MTS, Harvard Divinity School
BA Honors, Simon Fraser University
- Islam and Muslims in the West
- Media, Islamophobia and Decolonial Studies
- Liberalism, Secular Modernity, Religious/Subject Formation
- Art, Aesthetics, Cultural Production
- Anthropology (Cultural and Medical), Ethnographic Methods
- Theological, Interreligious, and Intercultural Education
- Spiritual Care, Chaplaincy, Mediation, Leadership
- AAR, Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, Committee Member (2016-2019), Chair (2019-2021)
- AAR, Contemporary Islam Group, Steering Committee Member (2011-2015)
- Graduate Theological Union, CARe, Board Member (2015-2018)
- Graduate Theological Union, Faculty Council (2011-2012, 2015-2017)
- Graduate Theological Union, Asia Project Board Member (2009-2011)
- UC Berkeley, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Public Theology Inquiry Group
- UC Berkeley, Center for Race and Gender, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project Advisor, Journal Board Member
- UC Berkeley, iGov Center for Institutions and Governance, Visiting Scholar, Religious Norms Project (2010-2015)
- UC Berkeley, Religion, Politics, Globalization Program, Steering Committee
- Stanford University Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Public Education Advisory Board
- Islamic Scholarship Fund, Advisory Board Member
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“Our Interconnectedness,” GTU Voices on Spiritual Care and Ethical Leadership for Our Times, April 2020
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Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education: Experiments in Empathy, Hadsell and Syeed, Eds. Brill, March 2020
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"Reflections on Islamic Studies in Interreligious Contexts" in Muslim World Journal, Wiley, April 2018.
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Politics of Exhibition: Artists and Muslim Identity in New York City, Cornell University Press, forthcoming.
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"Knowledge and Diversity: The Center for Islamic Studies Celebrates Ten Years," Skylight, Fall 2017
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"Challenges and Opportunities of Interreligious Seminary Studies," in AAR Spotlight on Theological Education, April 2016.
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Artistic Landscapes: Muslim Artists in America," in Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014.
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"Muslims and the Art of Interfaith Post-9/11," in Studying Islam in Practice, ed. Gabriele Marranci, 2013.
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“Ghada Amer, Zarina Hashmi, Shirin Neshat, Shahzia Sikander,” in Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, Facts on File, Inc., 2010.
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“Imaging, Imagining and Representation: Muslim Artists in NYC,” in Journal of Contemporary Islam, 2010.