Special Assistant to the Provost ∙ Trinity University
A historian of modern Africa, Anene has wide-ranging interests. Anene has been at Trinity University for two decades; as well as courses on African history, she has taught courses on food and boxing. Before coming to Trinity, Anene was Director of the Pan-African Studies Program at Barnard College (New York). Anene’s research interests revolve around constructions of identity in colonial and postcolonial contexts, with a particular attention to gender and religion, and she has written about, among other topics, elite Catholic women in Nigeria and the boxer Hogan Bassey. Anene is also the author of Culture and Customs of Namibia and she has also written for the national and international newspapers. Anene was the NEH Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Albright College, 2010-2011. From 2020 to 2023 she served as chair of the History department at Trinity.
Fellowship Project: The focus of Anene’s work is student success. As an ACS Mellon Academic Leadership Fellow, Anene is working closely with Trinity University’s Academic Leadership Team and Trinity’s Executive Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness to use qualitative as well as quantitative data to identify trends and patterns that will inform strategic recommendations for student persistence, retention, and graduation efforts.