Howard Lenhoff is currently Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Mississippi. He was President of the American Association for Ethiopian Jews from 1978-1982 and a member of its board of directors from 1974 until the AAEJ closed its doors in 1993. Author of over 200 publications and 11 books, Professor Lenhoff has served for various periods as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and as Professor of Political Sciences at UCI. He has been a guest researcher, faculty, or fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and in Eilat, at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), and at Ben Gurion University.