Rabbi Dr. Muller serves as an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include justice pedagogical frameworks, socio-political consciousness, Pro-Blackness, Jewish early childhood education, and countering antisemitism. Dr. Muller has served as lead author of South Carolina’s early childhood state standards and recently co-edited the Bloomsbury text, Early Childhood Jewish Education: Multicultural, Gender, and Constructivist Perspectives Dr. Muller is the co-founder of the Cutler Jewish Day School where he spent 30 years heading the school.

Research interests

Pro-Blackness and Pro-Jewishness in education; Combating antisemitism in educational settings; Anti-racist and justice pedagogies; Black–Jewish relations and solidarity in curricula and picture books; Early childhood education and children’s moral, cultural, and cognitive development