Bouchra Tafrata

Bouchra Tafrata’s research interests are broadly around infrastructure, extractivism, technoscience, and more-than-human entanglements. She is interested in tracing the colonial and industrial histories of natural resource extraction and how these logics are reproduced through large-scale infrastructure and technoscience, shaping contemporary political and ecological realities.

Before joining USC, she worked across academia and nonprofit policy research in Germany and Morocco, contributing to cross-continental initiatives on climate adaptation, the political economy of energy transition, and environmental governance in Africa. She has produced and contributed to multiple art-based research projects, including podcasts, and has written research articles and essays for a wide range of outlets. She holds a BA in Political Science from Mohammed V University in Morocco and an MA in Public Policy, specializing in International Political Economy and Development, from the Willy Brandt School at the University of Erfurt in Germany.