Holger Henke
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Holger W. Henke (born in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a political scientist, educator,[1] and served as the founding director of the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding at Adelphi University (NY).[2] In his previous position, he worked as the director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Between 2014-2017 he was vice-chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Wenzhou-Kean University (associate vice president for academic affairs at Kean University) in Wenzhou, China. From 2008 to 2014 he was assistant provost at York College, City University of New York.[3] He has previously taught (assistant professor, 2004–08; associate professor, 2008) at Metropolitan College of New York, and also served as associate professor of political history at Kean University. In the late 1990s he was the assistant director of the Caribbean Research Center (Medgar Evers College).
Holger Henke attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich, where he earned a Magister Artium (Political Science, with double minor in Modern German Literature and Communication Sciences) in 1987. He subsequently emigrated and lived for seven years in Jamaica. In 1996 he earned a Ph.D. in Government at the University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica) with a dissertation about the foreign relations of that country between 1972 and 1989.
Research and scholarship
Henke studies international relations (Caribbean, Europe, US, and Asia), migration, political culture and development (political economy).[3] He has published seven books and numerous scholarly articles. For numerous years Henke was the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas. In 2010-11 he served as President of the Caribbean Studies Association.[4] Henke also served as an advisory board member of the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College (City University of New York), where he previously had worked as assistant director. Until 2012 he was a senior research fellow of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington (D.C.). From 2011-2015 he provided annual country reports for several Caribbean nations to the Washington-based think tank Freedom House; since 2018 he has provided similar reviews for the V-Dem Institute (University of Gothenburg). In 2013 Dr. Henke received a Fulbright International Education Administrators (US-UK) Award.[5] In 2014 he participated in the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE). In August 2010, he received the honorary citizenship of Jamaica.
