Holger Henke

Holger Henke

CPC Fellow

Holger Henke is founding director of the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding at Adelphi University (NY). In his most recent position, he served as director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. Earlier assignments included work as Assistant Director at the Caribbean Research Center of Medgar Evers College (CUNY) and a full-time faculty position in the Human Services program at Metropolitan College of New York. Following these, he transitioned to senior academic administration in the role of Assistant Provost of York College (CUNY). From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Henke served as Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost at Wenzhou-Kean University in China.

Holger has published a variety of scholarly articles and book chapters, and seven books, including Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaica’s Foreign Relations (1972-1989), The West Indian Americans, and The End of the Asian ‘Model.’ As a self-described “trespassing political scientist,” his scholarly interests range from issues of political economy and development, to international relations, to culture and political culture, migration, political philosophy, and history.

Dr. Henke holds an MA in Political Science (with a double minor in Modern German Literature and Communications Sciences) from the University of Munich, and a PhD in Government from the University of the West Indies. He has participated in the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University and was awarded a Fulbright US-UK International Education Administrators Award. In 2010 Holger received a Certificate of Honorary Jamaican Citizenship and between 2010-11 served the Caribbean Studies Association in the leadership roles of Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President.