Mira Beth Wasserman is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Reconstructing Judaism, where she serves as associate professor of rabbinic literature and dean of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a Jewish seminary outside of Philadelphia. She is co-editor of (2025), part of the Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Her book, (Penn Press, 2017) was awarded the Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies published in 2017. As director of the Center for Jewish Ethics from 2017 until 2025, Wasserman pursued public scholarship on race, gender and Jewish ethics. She led the NEH-funded project, sparking new scholarship and developing resources for studying the multiracial, multicultural realities of Jewish life.