Sung-eun Choi

Sung-eun Choi

  • Associate Professor, History
  • Ph.D. in History, UCLA

Teaching Interests

Modern Europe, Contemporary World Issues, Empire and Decolonization, French North Africa

Research Interests

Modern France, Immigration and National Identity, Empire and Decolonization, Settler Colonialism

Bio

Sung Choi holds a doctorate from UCLA. She was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Nantes, France, and is the author of Decolonization and the French of Algeria (2016)

Professional Memberships

  • Society for French Historical Studies 2015-01-01 - Present
  • Council of European Studies 2014-11-01 - Present
  • Society for French Historical Studies 2014-01-01 - Present
  • Society for French Historical Studies 2015-01-01 - 2023-12-30
  • French Colonial Historical Studies 2013-01-01 - 2023-12-30
  • Middle East Studies Association 2026-03-02 - 2026-04-02

    • Awards and Honors

  • Research Grant in the Maghreb, American Institute for Maghreb Studies (AIMS)
  • Faculty support from the Wilson Center, M, Wilson Center of McMaster University, Canada
  • Faculty support from the University of Trento, Italy, Workshop on the Trauma of Returnees during Decolonization
  • Residence Fellow Position, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
  • Valente Center Faculty Grant, Valente Center, Bentley University
  • Valente NEH Humanities Research Grant, Valente Center, Bentley University, National Endowment for the Humanities

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Choi, S. (2012). Complex Compatriots: French Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria. Journal of North African Studies, (17) 5 18-Jan.
  • Choi, S. (2011). The Muslim Veteran in Postcolonial France: The Politics of the Integration of Harkis After 1962. French Politics, Culture, and Society, (29) 1 24-45.

    • Books

  • Choi, S. (2015). The French of Algeria and Decolonization: Bringing the Settler Colony Home Palgrave: Cambridge Series in Imperial and Postcolonial Studies (Link)

    • Book Chapters

  • Choi, S. (2023). Authenticity and Renewal in Jacques Berque's Critique of Orientalism The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization: Post-Orientalism Critique and the Politics of Difference. Montreal: Maurice Labelle Jr (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2022). Colonization, Land Registries and the Torrens Act in French Algeria, 1863-1903  Race, Place, Trace: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe. London, UK: Verso Press (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2020). Pied-Noir Trauma and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1962-2010 The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization: Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2016). French Algeria 1830-1962 Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism. London: Routledge Publishers (Link)
  • Choi, S. Colonization, Land Registries, and the Torrens Act in French Algeria, 1863-1903 Race, Place, Trace, Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe. London, UK: Verso

    • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts

  • Choi, S. 2022. "Interview with Samira Bendadi "Excuses aanbeiden voor de kolonisatie is de doos van pandora openen" in Mondiaal Nieuws"

    • Other Scholarly Work

  • Choi, S. (2023). Segregating Space, Integrating Time, Architecture and Memory in a French Political Prison. (Link).

    • Presentations

  • Choi, S. (2026). “"Jacques Berque: Decolonial thought between Morocco and France" ” Presented at the Society of French Historical Studies Annual Meeting of the French Historical Society Philadelphia, Old City Marriott (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2023). “Augustin Berque: Le triste Eldorado d'un officiel colonial” Presented at the IHTP Paris (Institut d'Histoire du temps pr√©sent) Le dossier de personne Paris, France
  • Choi, S. (2018). “To Animate, Participate, and Harmonize: Cooperation via IRAM in Postcolonial Madagascar, 1958-1965” Presented at the Western Society for French Historical Studies Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French Historical Studies Portland, ME

    • Reviews

  • Choi, S. (2020). Herrick Chapman, France's Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic. , (125) 2 737-738. (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2017). Claire Eldridge. From Empire to Exile: History and Memory Within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities. 2105 NA. (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2017). Jeffrey James Byrne. Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Revolution, and the Third World Order. , (122) 1 280-281. (Link)
  • Choi, S. (2015). Hannah Feldman, A Nation Torn, Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 and Martin Evans, France's Undeclared War. , (Volume 43) Issue 4 111-115. (Link)

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Member for Bentley Research Council 2022-09-01 - 2025-05-30
  • for University Senate 2021-08-01 - Present
  • Organizer for Bentley Speaker Series 2019-11-01 - Present
  • Coordinator for signing up History Minors for History Department Minors Coordinator 2015-10-30 - Present
  • Minors Coordinator for History Department Minors Coordinator 2016-06-01 - 2017-06-01

    • Service: Public

  • Program Organizer for Boston French History Group 2023-03-01 - Present

    • Service: Professional

  • Conference/Workshop Organizer for American Center for Maghreb Studies, Algeria 2019-04-01 - 2019-07-30

    • Service: University

  • Organizer for Usable Humanities Initiative 2024-01-01 - 2026-01-29
  • Committee Member for Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee 2026-01-01 - 2025-04-15
  • Program Organizer for Bentley University 2023-01-01 - 2026-01-01
  • Search Committee member for Bentley University Cronin Center for International Education 2022-10-01 - 2022-12-05
  • Advisory Board Member for Valente Center 2023-07-01 - Present
  • Committee Member for Bentley Research Council 2022-08-01 - Present
  • Advisory Board member for Bentley University FDS Advisory Board 2022-05-15 - Present
  • Committee Member for Modern Languages Department Tenure Committee for Laure Astourian 2022-01-01 - 2023-05-31
  • Committee Member for Bentley Nominations Committee 2021-08-15 - Present
  • Committee Member for Bentley Teaching and Learning Council 2021-08-15 - Present
  • Committee Member for Working Group for Redesigning the Communications Core Sequence Syllabus for Curricular Reform 2021-08-15 - Present
  • University Senate for Bentley University Senate 2021-08-01 - Present
  • Advisory Board member for Valente Center 2020-08-15 - Present
  • Committee Member for Honors Council 2018-11-01 - Present
  • Task Force Member for Task Force 3 for Curriculum Reform 2019-07-01 - 2019-12-15
  • University Senate for Faculty Senate 2016-08-29 - 2018-05-20
  • Administrative Assignment, Other for Freshmen Advising 2015-09-03 - 2016-05-15