Dr. Hatem Bazian is the founder and director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project (IRDP0, which is housed at UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. In 2012, Dr. Bazian founded and currently is the Editor in Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, a global resource for academic and applied research on Islamophobia. In addition to IRDP, Dr. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Bazian is a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. Dr. Bazian between 2002-2007, also served as an adjunct professor of law at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.