Dean of Students and Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences
215-576-0800 X125
gglicksman@rrc.edu

Gail Gaisin Glicksman, Ph.D., earned a bachelor of arts degree from Temple University and a master of arts in Hebrew letters and rabbinic ordination from RRC. She completed a master of science in education and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on two areas: the social context of health and illness and the cultural, and social and historical study of education. For her studies, she received a doctoral fellowship from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She worked in student affairs and academic administration for 14 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served most recently as associate director of career services.

Glicksman has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Gratz College. She was rabbi of Adath Shalom Congregation in Philadelphia and served as a chaplain at several nursing homes. She served as research associate and director of the Judaism and Health Care Ethics Initiative at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics in Chicago. She is involved in the Shleimut Institute, a consortium of individuals and institutions interested in Judaism and healing. She is a partner of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She has served as editor of the newsletter of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. She is also the author of a chapter entitled "It Couldn't Hurt: An Ethnographic Study of a Ritual for Healing" for Society and Medicine: Explorations of Their Moral and Spiritual Dimensions (Transaction Publishers, 2002).