ASA, Atlanta GA, November 20-22, 2025
Conference Theme: Crossing Boundaries and Recovering Intellectual Traditions
Africa Network Panel: Roundtable on Study Abroad in the Post-Pandemic Trump World
This roundtable explores how U.S. universities can build ethical partnerships with African institutions and host communities in the post-pandemic Trump era. Focused on smaller undergraduate institutions, we ask what role liberal arts colleges can play in promoting study abroad in Africa and forging new and mutually beneficial relationships with African partners. Using several different examples of new and long-term study abroad programs from institutions with different profiles and resource models, this roundtable will explore the larger question of how study abroad can help create curricular connections between African studies and the wider undergraduate curriculum.
Panelists
Anene Ejikeme, Ph.D.
A historian by training, Dr. Anene Ejikeme is on the faculty at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she also directs the African Studies Concentration in the International Studies Program and serves as African Studies advisor.
Matt Carotenuto, Ph.D.
Dr. Matt Carotenuto is Hanson Associate Dean of International and Intercultural Studies and professor of history at St. Lawrence University. He teaches survey courses in African history and African studies, upper division classes on constructions of identity and conflict, and seminars on colonial and urban history.
Eric Michael Washington, Ph.D.
Dr. Eric Michael Washington is professor of history at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI where he specializes in the history of Africa and Africans in the Western Hemisphere. He is also the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies minor.
The Africa Network 