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After coming to the United States, he was first affiliated with the Caribbean Research Center at Medgar Evers College (CUNY).  He then accepted a full-time faculty position in the Human Services programme at Metropolitan College of New York, and then transitioned to senior academic administration in the role of Assistant Provost of York College (CUNY).  Subsequently, Dr. Henke served as Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs & Provost at Wenzhou-Kean University in China.  In his most recent role, Dr. Henke 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).

In addition to numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters, Dr. Henke has published seven books as author, editor, or as (main) co-editor, among them The End of the ‘Asian Model?’ (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins), Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaica’s Foreign Relations, 1972-1989 (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press), The West Indian Americans (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 2001), and New Political Culture in the Caribbean (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press).

In 2014, Dr. Henke completed a course of study at the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) at Harvard University.  The previous year, he earned a Fulbright US-UK International Education Administrators Award. In 2010, he was bestowed a Certificate of Honorary Jamaican Citizenship by the Consulate General of Jamaica in New York for “outstanding contribution and exemplary service to the Caribbean American and wider community of New York”, having served the Caribbean Studies Association in the leadership roles of Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President.  He also completed a fellowship with the prestigious Salzburg Global Seminar.