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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.

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Executive Officers

AIYS Officers

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President

Professor of Religious Studies & Middle East/ South Asia Studies

University of California, Davis

fmiller@ucdavis.edu

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Vice President

Associate Professor of Arabic

Middlebury College

slieb@middlebury.edu

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Treasurer

Political Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

alsaeedi@mit.edu

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Secretary

Chair, Religion Department

Barnard College

nhaider@barnard.edu

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Resident Director, Ṣan‘ā'

Professor of Political Science

Ṣan‘ā' University

At-Large Members

At-Large Members

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Associate Professor

University of Oklahoma

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Tarek al-Wazir

Yemen Heritage and Research Center

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Professor and Chair

Department of Anthropology

Appalachian State University

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Associate Professor

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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Professor

University of Michigan

Saint Petersburg State University

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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

Honorary Members

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Author, Historian

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Mohammed Gerhoum

Former Minister of Information

Republic of Yemen

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Mohammed Sharafuddin

Professor

English and Comparative Literature

Sana'a University

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Marjorie Ransom

Researcher, Author

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Muhammad 'Abd al-Raḥīm Jāzim

Historian

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'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

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Andre Gingrich

Institute for Social Anthropology,

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Former Director

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Christian Robin

Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

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G. Rex Smith

Historian

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Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Frankfurt

Former Director

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Independent Scholar

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Nizar Ghanem

Musician, Scholar

Institutionl Members

Institutional Members

American Foundation for the Study of Man

American Museum of Natural History

Columbia University

Emory University

Harvard University

George Gund III Foundation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries

Middlebury College

Mount Royal University

National University of Singapore

New York University

Ohio State University

Princeton University

The Smithsonian Institution/CAORC

Towson University

University of Arizona

University of California – Berkeley

University of Chicago

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania

University of Texas-Austin

Research Associates

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Independent Scholar

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Raiman Hamdani

Independent Scholar

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