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Nora Gold received her Bachelor in Social Work (BSW) from McGill University in 1975, and then moved to Israel, where she worked as a social worker with developmentally challenged adolescents, and headed a national project for the elderly in Beit Shemesh, a development town near Jerusalem. She returned to Canada in 1981 to get her Masters in Social Work at University of Toronto, graduating in 1982 with her MSW, and worked for 3 years at Thistletown Regional Centre with the families of autistic children. In 1985 Gold returned to academic studies at U of T, and over the next 5 years completed her PhD in Social Work.
In 1990 Dr. Gold joined the School of Social Work at McMaster University. A few years later she received tenure and the status of Associate Professor, and until January 2000 was extremely productive in her teaching, research, and scholarship. Dr. Gold authored numerous scholarly articles and book chapters and received funding for 7 different research projects, two of them international collaborations. However, in 2000 (following the success of her first book,Marrow and Other Stories), Gold left McMaster in order to have more time for writing fiction. She has continued since then though, to be, on a part-time basis, a presence in the academe. For the past ten years Dr. Gold has been an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), and she is also an Associate Member of the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. From within these affiliations, she has continued with her research and publishing: In 2003 Gold was awarded a 4-year research grant to do a longitudinal study of Canadian Jewish girls' experiences of antisemitism and sexism, funded by the prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). (This was Gold's second research grant from SSHRC - the first was a nation-wide study of Canadian Jewish women's experiences of antisemitism and sexism.) This most recent project on Jewish girls is now completed, as is the short documentary film about this research, Jewish Girl Power, that can be viewed on this website's home page.
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Academic Honours and Research Awards
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