Michelle Mueller, M.Div.

Michelle Mueller M.Div., Ph.D., holds degrees from the Graduate Theological Union, the Pacific School of Religion, and Bryn Mawr College. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality in new religious movements. Mueller’s dissertation examined alternative religious families’ uses of reality television as a medium for public advocacy (e.g., Sister Wives). Interested particularly in California’s religious legacies, Mueller has spent time doing participant-observation within local Wiccan communities. Mueller has been a Visiting Scholar of Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics & Ritual (WATER), a Christine Downing Dissertation Fellow, and the recipient of two Newhall Teaching Fellowships.She has presented at American Academy of Religion and at Pagan gatherings such as PantheaCon. Michelle has professional experience in children’s and youth ministry, having worked as Director of Religious Education for two Unitarian Universalist congregations (east coast and west coast). Michelle is a National Interfaith Representative for the Covenant of the Goddess.