Hizky Shoham is a a research fellow in the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a scholar at Bar Ilan University, where he heads the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies and co-directs the Center for Cultural Sociology.

Hizky’s interdisciplinary research spans anthropological history, cultural sociology, and cultural theory, with a primary focus on Zionism, the Yishuv, Israeli society, and North American Jewry. His work explores the intersections of religion, nationalism, and consumer culture, particularly through the lens of holidays and life cycle rituals. He examines how cultural and social processes develop organically within societies, independent of direct institutional influence, emphasizing theoretically informed approaches.

His notable publications include: Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (Academic Studies Press, 2014); and Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel (Brill, 2017). His manuscript, Why Bar and Bat Mitzvah? Gender, Spectacle, and Temporality in Modern Jewish Cultures, received the Goldberg Prize in 2022 and was published in 2023 by the Open University of Israel Press. The English translation, titled A Moving Feast: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah across Jewish Cultures, was published by De Gruyter in 2024.

In addition to his focus on holidays and life cycle rituals, Hizky has published extensively on the history of childhood, family, and emotions, as well as theoretical discussions on time, space, culture, and religion. His work engages deeply with how everyday cultural and social phenomena shape and are shaped by broader historical and theoretical contexts.