Gal Ravia, PhD

Dr Gal Ravia is a media and cultural researcher based in San Francisco, CA. Gal's research adopts user perspectives to explore the ethics of emerging technologies, and asks how technology shapes social categories such as memory, witnessing, authenticity, and intimacy.

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Gal's most recent project, Live memory: Holocaust memory and the holographic encounter, explored the intersection of XR technologies and Holocaust memory and education. Building on visitor interviews and participant observations of the Dimensions in Testimony holograms of Holocaust survivors, she argues against memory techno-solutionism, advocating instead for creating the social conditions required for audiences to engage with testimony.

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Gal is Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications, LSE, where she completed her PhD in 2025. She was previously a Doctoral Fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. Gal completed her MA in Communications at Tel-Aviv University.