Dr. Andrew Jolivette, (Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana [Tsikip/Opelousa/Heron Clan]),is Professor and Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego as well as the Founding Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at UC San Diego. A former professor and Department Chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, he is the author or editor of nine books in print or forthcoming including the Lammy Award nominated, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community; Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity; Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change; Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority; Cultural Representation in Native America; Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Commuity (co-editor); Gumbo Circuitry: Poetic Routes, Gastronomic Legacies; American Indian and Indigenous Education: A Survey Text for the 21st Century; and Thrivance Circuitry: Queer Afro-Indigenous Futurity and Kinship. A former Indigenous Peoples representative to the United Nations Forum on HIV and the Law, he has spoken to thousands of college students, educators, government employees, private and non-profit sector organizations over the past two decades across the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and Australia. Jolivette is a Louisiana Creole of West African, Ishak, French, Spanish, Italian, and Irish descent.
Dr. Andrew Jolivette
