Sunny Chen

Field of Study

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Research

Sunny is a PhD student working on anti-imperial labor militancy, colonial environmentalism, and the political economy of phosphate extraction in Morocco.

Awards & Grants

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 2023-2024
• Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship 2023-2024

Conference Presentations

•  “The Geological Sciences of Colonial Labor Policy in Moroccan Phosphate Mines (1912–1956).” Approaches to Envirotech, Society for the History of Technology, 2023.
• “‘The Sahara Illuminates the Future’: Phosphate Mining and the Politics of Environmentalism.” Decolonizing the Maghreb. Middle East Studies Association, 2023.

Advisor(s)

Soraya de Chadarevian

Degrees

• B.A. Columbia University 2020
• M.A. Columbia University 2021