Stanford Humanities Center
Samia Errazzouki is a historian of early Northwest Africa. She holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Davis and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Her research and teaching focuses on trans-regional histories of racial capitalism, slavery, and empire. Samia formerly worked as a Morocco-based journalist with the Associated Press, and later, with Reuters. She is currently a co-editor of Jadaliyya and assistant editor of The Journal of North African Studies.
SHC Project
The Saharan Passage: Sugar, Slavery, and Empire in the African Atlantic
Samia Errazzouki's first book project, The Saharan Passage: Sugar, Slavery, and Empire in the African Atlantic, examines the nascent history of the global sugar economy during the sixteenth century. This project centers Northwest Africa as an integral site in the transformation of sugar from an elite luxury to a mass-produced commodity notorious for the brutality behind its cultivation. Drawing from archival and archeological sources in Jamaica, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, and the United Kingdom, this book forges a new historiographical space that challenges existing taxonomies that have obscured linkages between these regions. In
doing so, this book expands our understanding of the global histories of racialized slavery, capitalism, empire, and how the traces of this past continue to shape the present on both sides of the Atlantic.
Understanding the Disproportionate Impacts of the Morocco Earthquake - Stanford Report
