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Dr. Ruth N. Sandberg is the Leonard and Ethel Landau Professor of Rabbinics and was the founding director of the Center for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights at Gratz College. She is a member of the board of Directors of the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and served for three years as the co-President of the Cheltenham Area Multifaith Council, a local organization that promotes interfaith understanding. Dr. Sandberg is also on the Board of the CCJR (Council of Centers for Jewish-Christian Relations), a national organization that promotes academic research, as well as Jewish-Christian dialogue. From 2006 to 2008, she served as the Dean of Students at Gratz.  Before coming to Gratz, Dr. Sandberg served for five years as a Rabbi and Director of Education at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Sandberg received her B.A. as a double-major in Classical Greek and History of Religion from Bryn Mawr College; Rabbinical Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; and a Ph.D. in Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature, specializing in Rabbinics, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Sandberg's areas of special interest include: the role of the Church in the Holocaust; Post-Holocaust theology; the relationship between Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity; Jewish-Christian relations; Interfaith studies; early Rabbinic midrash; classical Rabbinic theology; and the process of Jewish law.