Board of Directors and Administrative Structure
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies is governed by an elected Board of Directors who delegate responsibility for specific needs to committees. The board includes the Executive Officers, At-Large Members, and Representatives of Institutional Members.
Learn more about Institutional Membership and how to become a member here.
AIYS Officers
President
Professor of Religious Studies & Middle East/ South Asia Studies
University of California, Davis
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Resident Director, Ṣan‘ā'
Professor of Political Science
Ṣan‘ā' University
At-Large Members
Founder and President
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Appalachian State University
Associate Professor
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Professor
University of Michigan
Saint Petersburg State University
AbdulHakem A. Alsadah
National Association of Yemeni Americans (NAYA); Clinical and Community Social Worker MSW,
Adjunct Professor of Government and Political Science
Henry Ford College & Oakland Community College
Independent Scholar
Honorary Members
Author, Historian
Mohammed Gerhoum
Former Minister of Information
Republic of Yemen
Mohammed Sharafuddin
Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Sana'a University
Marjorie Ransom
Researcher, Author
Muhammad 'Abd al-Raḥīm Jāzim
Historian
'Abd al-Wahhab al-Hajri
Former Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to the United States,
Founder of the Yemen Information Center,
President of Hajjri & Partners
Andre Gingrich
Institute for Social Anthropology,
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Former Director
Christian Robin
Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
G. Rex Smith
Historian
Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Frankfurt
Former Director
Independent Scholar
Nizar Ghanem
Musician, Scholar
Institutional Members
Charter Members
Institutional Members
American Foundation for the Study of Man
Representative: Zaydoon Zaid
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Chicago
Representative: McGuire Gibson
University of Colorado, International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development
Georgetown University
Harvard University
New York University
Representative: Nathalie Peutz
Northern Illinois University
Princeton University
University of Texas, Austin
University of Toronto
University of Utah
American Museum of Natural History
University of Arizona
Columbia University
Emory University
Representative: Roxani Margariti
George Gund III Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries
Representative: Michael Toler
Middlebury College
Representative: Samuel Liebhaber
Mount Royal University
National University of Singapore
Ohio State University
Representative: Joy McCorriston
The Smithsonian Institution/CAORC
Towson University
Representative: Charles Schmitz
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
