Sunny Chen
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Research
Sunny is a PhD student working on colonialism, environment and extraction in modern Morocco.
Awards & Grants
- American Institute for Maghrib Studies 2025
- Linda Hall Library for Science, Engineering, and Technology Fellowship 2024
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 2022, 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.
