Iris Kemoun is an MSc candidate in Digital Scholarship at the University of Oxford. Her research examines how digital spaces shape public perceptions of history, working at the intersection of historical narratives, digital methods, and memory studies.
Prior to Oxford, she completed an MSc in Narrative Futures at the University of Edinburgh, where she explored the relationship between storytelling, data, and history. She has worked on gamified approaches to historical storytelling, memory policies, and Jewish history. She holds a multidisciplinary undergraduate degree from Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, specializing in history within the humanities track of the CPES program. Her undergraduate studies focused on historiography, art history, and memory studies, culminating in a thesis on the representation of Jews in diplomatic correspondence in the Levant.
Beyond academia, Iris has experience in communications strategy and narrative construction. She is deeply interested in journalism, particularly in how digital tools can enhance historical reporting, media literacy, and public engagement with the past. Passionate about bridging academia and the public sphere, she uses digital methods to critically examine how historical narratives are mediated and contested in the digital age.
