Renana Keydar has served as assistant professor of law and digital humanities at the Hebrew University since July 2020. She heads the Alfred Landecker Digital Humanities Lab and is the founder and director of the teaching program in digital humanities at the Hebrew University.

 Keydar is the recipient of the prestigious Alon Fellowship for outstanding young researchers. She earned an LLB in law and a BA in political science from Tel Aviv University (magna cum laude) and served as a legal advocate in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, High Court of Justice Department. Upon receiving her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, Keydar was selected as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Minerva Center for Human Rights and then as a research fellow in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University. Today, Keydar is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science Research and at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center, and is a visiting researcher at the Poetic Media Lab at Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.