Scholar
Renana Keydar
Google Scholar ID: HqOHc38AAAAJ
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Citations & Impact
Citations
95
H-index
5
i10-index
2
Publications
20
Co-authors
16
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers
- Published 'The Perfect Victim: Computational Analysis of Judicial Attitudes towards Victims of Sexual Violence' at ICAIL 2023
- Published 'The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations' in Human Rights Law Review (2024)
- Published 'Changing the Lens on Survivor Testimony: Topic Modeling the Eichmann Trial' in Jewish Studies Quarterly (2022)
- Published 'Modeling Repressive Policing: Computational Analysis of Protocols from the Israeli State Commission of Inquiry into the October 2000 Events' in Law and Social Inquiry (2022)
- Authored multiple Hebrew-language articles on Holocaust testimony and October 7 survivor narratives
Research Experience
- Professor and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Founder and director of the digital humanities teaching program at the Hebrew University
- Head of the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Center
- Former Research Fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University
- Former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights
- Served as a legal advocate in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, High Court of Justice Department
Background
- Professor of Law and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since July 2020
- Research interests include law and digital humanities, computational legal studies, testimony studies, and computational analysis of human rights discourse
- Leading member of the Edut 710 initiative documenting survivor testimonies of the October 7, 2023 attacks
- Affiliated faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research and the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center
- Visiting researcher at the Poetic Media Lab, Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
