Faculty and Postdoctoral Scholars

Each of ISSI's Centers has many affiliated faculty members and postdoctoral scholars, which are listed on the center websites.

ISSI Interim Director: Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies

ISSI Faculty Leadership Council:

Patricia Baquedano-López, Associate Professor of Education

Tom Biolsi, Professor of Ethnic Studies

Charles L. Briggs, Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor, Anthropology; Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus

Ian F. Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law, UC Berkeley

Seth Holmes, Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, Management; Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine 

Shari Huhndorf, Class of 1938 Professor; Coordinator, Native American Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies

Jovan Lewis, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies and Geography

Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship, Department of History

Laura E. Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Chair, Latinx Research Center

Tina Sacks, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Chair, Center for Research on Social Change

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Professor of Sociology; Chair, Center for Ethnographic Research; Chair, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues

Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies

Khatharya Um, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies

In addition to the Faculty Leadership Council, ISSI is guided by the Advisory Board, listed here.

Faculty in Residence:

Vincanne Adams, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF

Amani M. Allen (formerly Nuru-Jeter), Public Health, UC Berkeley

Charles Briggs, Anthropology, Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, UC Berkeley

Aaron Cicourel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology & Cognitive Science, UC San Diego

Troy Duster, Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley

Mark Fleming, Medical Anthropology, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF

Deborah Gordon, Anthropology and Social Medicine, UCSF

Kris Gutierrez, Education, UC Berkeley

Seth Holmes, Medical Anthropology; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Berkeley

Kelly Knight, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF

Clara Mantini-Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

David Montejano, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Cristina Mora, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Trond Petersen, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Sociology; Chair, Center for Ethnographic Research; Co-Chair, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, UC Berkeley

Jeffrey Schonberg, Anthropology, San Francisco State University

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Family and Community Medicine, UC San Francisco

Stacy Torres, Sociology, UC San Francisco

Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Anthropology, UCSF