Carlyn Mueller

Carlyn Mueller is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education. Her research focuses on disability identity development in school contexts: including development of disability community and solidarity in special education, disability representation in curriculum, and intersectionality of race and disability. Her dissertation work on the lifespan development of disability identity received an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Special & Inclusive Education Research SIG. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2019 and was previously an Academic Pathways Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University.