Sunny Chen
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Research
Sunny is a PhD student working on labor, environment, extraction, and colonialism in modern Morocco.
Awards & Grants
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award 2025-2026
- 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
- “Moving Workers, Moving Commodities: Making the Phosphateville in Protectorate Morocco (1912-1956).” Reading for Resistance: Colonialism, Capital & Company Towns, Society for the History of Technology, 2025.
- “Geographies of Extraction, Networks of Resistance: Phosphate Mining Unions during Moroccan Independence.” Decolonization and Development in African History, African Studies Association, 2024.
- “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.
