Ruth Weisberg, is Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. Recent honors include Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Hebrew Union College, 2001, College Art Association Distinguished Teaching of Art Award 1999, Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome 1995, 1994 and 1992, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar 1994, a Senior Research Fulbright for Italy in 1992, School of Art University of Michigan Distinguished Alumni/AE Award for 1992; Weisberg was also President of the College Art Association 1990-92.

As an artist, Weisberg has been a particularly active exhibitor with over seventy solo and 160 group exhibitions. Her work is included in sixty major Museum and University. Weisberg has written over fifty articles and reviews as well as several book chapters; most recently a chapter in "The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity" for the University of Michigan Press and the American Academy in Rome. She was chosen as the artist for the Central Conference of American Rabbi’s (the Reform Movement) new Haggadah, which is now in its second printing. The drawing exhibition “The Open Door Haggadah,” has been shown at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and New York; Jewish Community Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Sylvia Platkin Museum, Scottsdale, Arizona; and at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.