Sunarwoto earned his Ph.D. (2015) from Tilburg School of Humanities, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His academic interests include Qur’anic studies, history (esp. of Indonesian Islam), anthropology of Islam, political Islam, and religion and media. Currently he is involved in a research project on Salafism in Southeast Asia funded by RSIS, NanyangTechnological University (NTU), Singapore.