Visiting professors
- Jonathan Hill – Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA
- Ullrich Kockel – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Roberto Barrios – Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, USA
- Robert Parkin – Institute of Anthropology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Research Associates
- Laura Assmuth – University of Eastern Finland, Joensu, Finland
- Darius Daukšas –Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius
- Ingrida Gečienė – Institute of Social Innovations, Vilnius
- Caroline Hornstein-Tomic – Pilar Institute, Croatian Academy of Sciences, Zagreb
- Jolanta Kuznecovienė, VMU Department of Sociology.
- Carole Lemee –Department of Anthropology, University of Bordeaux, France.
- Rimantas Sliužinskas –University of Klaipeda.
- Ingo Schroeder – University of Marburg, Germany
- Violetta Parutis – University of Sussex, United Kingdom
- Kottookunnel Usha – Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Associates of the Center for Social Anthropology
- Neringa Klumbytė – Department of Anthropology, Miami University, Ohio, USA
- Kristina Jonutytė- VMU Department of Sociology, VU Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies
- Gediminas Lankauskas – Department of Anthropology, University of Regina, Canada
- Eugenijus Liutkevičius – VMU Department of Sociology
- Kristina Šliavaitė – VMU Department of Sociology and Lithuanian Center of Social Sciences, Institute of Ethnic Research, Vilnius
- Asta Vonderau – Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany