Holger Wilhelm Henke
Holger Wilhelm Henke (* 25. September 1960 in Viersen

Viersen

Viersen is the capital of the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:Viersen is situated approximately 8 km north-west of Mönchengladbach, 15 km south-west of Krefeld and 20 km east of Venlo ....

 (North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

, Germany

Germany

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) is a political scientist and works as assistant provost at York College, City University of New York

York College, City University of New York

York College of The City University of New York is one of eleven senior colleges in the City University of New York system. It is located in Jamaica, Queens in New York City...

. He has previously taught as a professor (assistant professor, 2004–08; associate professor, 2008) at Metropolitan College of New York

Metropolitan College of New York

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. He also was the Assistant Director of the Caribbean Research Center (Medgar Evers College, CUNY).

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 in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

. 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. He is the Immediate Past President of the Caribbean Studies Association (2010–2011). Henke is also a Senior Fellow of the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York.Medgar Evers College was officially established in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn...

 (City University of New York

City University of New York

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), where he previously had worked as assistant director, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization founded in 1975. In its own words, it was established to "promote the common interests of the [Western] hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the...

in Washington (D.C.). In August 2010, he received the honorary citizenship of Jamaica. In 2011, invited by Freedom House to provide annual country reports for several Caribbean nations.

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.