Ibtissam Bouachrine
# Ibtissam Bouachrine

Ibtissam Bouachrine is a researcher in Islamic gender studies, professor and chair at Smith College in the department of Spanish and Portuguese. According to Harvard Law Today, Bouachrine is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media. According to Harvard Law Today, Bouachrine has ongoing interdisciplinary research interests in the topics namely technology, ethics, law, and women’s rights in Muslim-majority societies. Bouachrine is on editorial board of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa.

## Personal life

Ibtissam Bouachrine was born in Casablanca, Morocco. Bouachrine has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from West Virginia University. She gained a Ph.D. in medieval Iberian literatures and cultures from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Bouachrine then joined the Smith College faculty. She served as former director of the Middle East studies program the co-director of the Women’s Education Concentration. In 2021, she became a full professor at Smith.

