Holger Henke

Holger Henke William ( born September 25, 1960 in Viersen, North Rhine -Westphalia) is a political scientist and works as an Assistant Provost at York College of the City University of New York. Previously, he 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 Hair ( Munich). He attended the Scholl - Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich, where in 1987 he received the Master of Arts ( Political Science, German Literature, Communication Studies ). In the same year he emigrated and lived the next seven years in Jamaica. In 1996 he earned his doctorate at the University of the West Indies (Mona ) with a dissertation on the external relations of the country 1972-1989 since 1995., He lives 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 professional literature and various newspapers and magazines. He is the editor of the journal Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its diasporas, and 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 ( City University of New York), where he had previously worked as Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington ( DC) - a liberal "think tank. " In August 2010 he was made ​​an honorary citizen of Jamaica.

Works

  • 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.
  • Political scientist
  • University teachers (Hunter College)
  • University teachers (New York City )
  • University teachers ( City University of New York)
  • Emigrants from Germany
  • Americans
  • Born in 1960
  • Man
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