Holger Henke

Holger Wilhelm Henke (born September 25, 1960 in Viersen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a political scientist and was Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost at Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou (China) from 2014 to 2017 . Previously, he was Assistant Provost at York College of the City University of New York and taught as a professor ( assistant professor , 2004-08; Associate Professor , 2008-) at the Metropolitan College of New York.

Life

Holger Henke grew up in Viersen and from 1972 in Haar (Munich). He attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich, where he received his Magister Artium (Political Science, Modern German Literature, Communication Studies) in 1987. In the same year he emigrated and lived in Jamaica for the next seven years . In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of the West Indies ( Mona ) with a dissertation on the country's external relations between 1972 and 1989. Since 1995 he has lived near New York.

Services

Henke works on international relations (focus: Caribbean, Europe, USA, and Asia), migration, political culture and development policy. He has published six books and numerous articles in specialist literature and various newspapers and magazines. He is editor of the journal Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas and Past President of the Caribbean Studies Association (2010–2011). Henke is also a Senior Fellow of the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College (City University of New York), where he previously worked as Deputy Director, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington (DC) - a liberal think tank . " In August 2010 he was made an honorary citizen of Jamaica. In August 2013 he attended the Fulbright International Education Administrators seminar in England and Scotland. In 2014 he attended Harvard University's annual Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) .

Works

The end of the “Asian Model”? . (Eds., With Ian Boxill), John Benjamin: Amsterdam & Philadelphia 2000.
Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaica's Foreign Relations, 1972-1989 . Kingston: University of the West Indies Press 2000.
The West Indian Americans . Westport (CT): Greenwood Press 2001
Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean . (Ed., With Fred Reno), Kingston: University of the West Indies Press 2003.
Crossing over. Comparing Recent Migration in the United States and Europe , (Ed.), Lanham (MD): Lexington Books 2005.
Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean , (Ed., With Karl-Heinz Magister), Lanham (MD): Lexington Books 2008.

personal data
SURNAME	Henke, Holger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henke, Holger Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Viersen