- Holger Henke
Holger Wilhelm Henke (*
25. September 1960 inViersen (North Rhine-Westphalia ,Germany ) is a political scientist and works as assistant provost at York College of theCity University of New York . He has previously taught as a professor ("assistant professor", 2004-08; "associate professor", 2008) at Metropolitan College of New York.Life
Holger Henke grew up in Viersen and since 1972 in Haar (Munich). He attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the
University of Munich , where he obtained a Magister Artium (Political Science, Modern German Literature, and Communication Sciences) in 1987. He subsequently emigrated and lived for seven years inJamaica . In 1996 he earned a Ph.D. in Government at the University of the West Indies (Mona) with a dissertation about the foreign relations of that country between 1972 und 1989. Since 1995 he lives near New York City.Work
Henke studies international relations (Caribbean, Europe, USA, und Asia), migration, political culture and development (political economy). He has published six books and numerous scholarly articles. Henke is the editor of the peer-reviewed journal "Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas", and a Council-member of the Caribbean Studies Association. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Caribbean Research Center at
Medgar Evers College (City University of New York ), where he previously had worked as assistant director, and a Senior Research Fellow of theCouncil on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington (D.C.).Books
* "The End of the “Asian Model”?". (ed., with Ian Boxill), John Benjamins: 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.
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