Ibtissam Bouachrine is a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor at Smith College, where she is the Chair of African Studies. Her scholarship and teaching focus on women's human rights in Africa and the Middle East.
She is the author of two books on women and gender in Muslim-majority societies: Women and Islam (2014) and Anthem of Misogyny (2022). Her current research interest lies at the intersection of AI, law, and women’s digital rights. In 2022-23, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media, where she began working on her current book project, tentatively titled The Digital Lives of Muslim Women.
Professor Bouachrine’s research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, 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. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency.
