Ibtissam Bouachrine is a researcher in Islamic gender studies, professor and chair at Smith College in Massachusetts in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and also former director of the Middle East studies program. 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.