Munro completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis was titled "A Struggle for Identity and Direction": A History of Victoria Baptists (c.1960-c.2000).[3]
Munro was ordained at Collins Street Baptist Church on 1 October 1978 at age 23, making her the first woman Baptist minister ordained in Australia.[2] She pastored at the House of the Gentle Bunyip Christian Community and Clifton Hill Baptist Church.[3] She also taught at two Melbourne high schools.[3]
Munro joined the faculty of Whitley College in 1995 and is a lecturer in Baptist Studies and Church History.[3][5] She is the President of the Victoria Baptist Historical Society.[6]
Marita Munro and Roslyn Otzen, eds. ‘Doing What Comes Naturally,’ Baptcare, Vic., December 2017.
‘“A Debt of Gratitude”: Martin Luther, Anabaptists and Baptists’. 134 (Autumn 2017): 16–18.
Biographical essay. In Frank Rees, ed. . Melbourne: Whitley College, 2016, 9-24.
“Making Connections”: Australian Baptists and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century’. In Douglas Weaver, ed. . Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2015, 188–204.
‘Brunswick Baptist Church: the first fifty years, 1862-1912’. 22 (2014): 26–55.
‘No Plaster Saints.’ In Alan Cadwallader, ed. . Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum: 2010, 157–74.
‘ “A Struggle for Identity and Direction”: A History of Victoria Baptists, c. 1960-c.2000’. Peter Lang, Berlin.
