Board of Directors
AIYS Officers
President
Professor of Religious Studies &
Middle East / South Asia Studies
University of California, Davis
Vice President
Associate Professor of Arabic
Middlebury College
Current Board Members At-large
University of Oklahoma
Yemen Heritage and Research Center
National Associations of Yemeni Americans NAYA / Clinical and Community Social Worker MSW ,
Adjunct professor of Government and Political
Henry Ford College
Oakland Community College
Honorary Members
Author, Historian
Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥīm Jāzim
Historian
Institutional Members
American Foundation for the Study of Man
American Museum of Natural History
Columbia University
Harvard University
George Gund III Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries
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
G. Rex Smith
Historian
Mohammed Gerhoum
Former Minister of Information
Republic of Yemen
‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Hajri
Former Ambassador
of the Republic of Yemen to the U.S.
Research Associates
Mohammed Sharafuddin
Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Sana'a University
Independent Scholar
Raiman Hamdani
Independent Scholar
Noha Sadek
Independent Scholar
Researcher/Writer
CNRS
Musician and Scholar