Holger Henke
German political scientist
Holger W. Henke (born in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a political scientist, educator, and served as the founding director of the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding at Adelphi University (NY). 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 an assistant provost at York College, City University of New York. He has previously taught (assistant professor, 2004–2008; 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).
Education
Holger Henke attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at LMU 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).
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