Ibtissam Bouachrine is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor at Smith College, where she chairs the Program in African Studies.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of the ethics, law, and governance of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on women and girls’ digital rights in Africa and the Middle East. She is the author of two books, Women and Islam (2014) and Anthem of Misogyny (2022). In 2022-23, she was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media, where she began her current book project, tentatively titled The Digital Lives of Muslim Women, which builds on her published work on state-led AI surveillance and its effects on women and girls. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, the American Academy in Rome, and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. She was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University, and in 2023 held a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.
