About

My research bridges the disciplines of history and political science, employing cutting-edge digital methodologies to examine memory, political behavior, and public discourse. My dissertation, This Tale Happened Once Upon a Time: The Californian Narrative of the Civil War and Its Influence on America, 1865–2009, explores how regional narratives shape collective memory and political identities. Through geospatial analysis, archival research, and Generative AI, I analyze the erasure of California's Civil War protagonists from public discourse and the transplantation of national narratives into the state. 

In parallel, I pursue a political science research agenda examining the intersections of public health, polarization, and representation. My latest research in this field examined  congressional responsiveness to micro-minorities, such as Jewish voters during the Israel-Gaza conflict, using AI-based analyses of legislative communication. My findings highlight how geographically concentrated micro-minorities influence political dynamics in overlooked ways. 

In my academic-activist side, I have co-founded the Civil Archive for the October 7th War, a digital documentation project that employs cutting-edge archiving and computational techniques to preserve primary sources and narratives about the effects of the ongoing conflict in Israel, Gaza and Lebanon on Israeli society. Together with my father, Israel Kroizer, I have undertaken a legal effort to address the significant budget mismanagement within ultra-Orthodox education networks  ("Hachinuch Ha’atzmai" and "Bnei Yosef"). As part of this initiative, I conducted a detailed report exposing the over-budgeting practices of these entities.