ISSI provides office space to more than 75 affiliated faculty (listed below), graduate students, research staff, and visiting scholars from more than a dozen disciplines in the social sciences and professional schools. In addition, dozens more faculty and students are affiliated with one or more of ISSI's six research centers. With support from ISSI's leadership and staff, these scholars add to the intellectual vitality of the Institute and serve as valuable sources of expertise and knowledge for students, faculty and community members.
Each of the ISSI Centers has many affiliated faculty members and postdoctoral scholars who are listed on the Center websites. The following are in residence at ISSI:
Vincanne Adams, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF
Patricia Baquedano-López, Graduate School of Education, 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, Public Health, UC Berkeley
Deborah Gordon, Anthropology and Social Medicine, UCSF
Kris Gutierrez, Education, UC Berkeley
Seth Holmes, Medical Anthropology, Public Health; Co-Chair, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Berkeley
Kelly Knight, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF
Clara Mantini-Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Amani M. Allen, Public Health, UC Berkeley
Trond Petersen, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Larry Rosenthal, Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Sociology; Chair, Center for Ethnographic Research; Chair, Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, UC Berkeley
Stephen Small, African American Studies; Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Jeffrey Schonberg, Anthropology, San Francisco State University
Loïc Wacquant, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Ian Whitmarsh, Medical Anthropology, UCSF