| Andrew Jolivétte | |
| Birth Name: | Andrew James Jolivette |
| Birth Date: | 1975 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Sociologist |
| Alma Mater: | University of San Francisco (BA) San Francisco State University (MA) University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Creole Diaspora: (Re)articulating the Social, Legal, Economic, and Regional Construction of American Indian Identity |
| Thesis Year: | 2003 |
| Discipline: | Ethnic studies |
| Workplaces: | University of California–San Diego |
Andrew Jolivétte is an American sociologist and author. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he is chair of the department of Ethnic Studies.[1] He is the co-chair of UC Ethnic Studies Council.[2]
Andrew James Jolivette[3] was born in San Francisco in 1975 to Annetta Donna Foster Jolivette and Kenneth Louis Jolivette. He grew up in San Francisco.[4] He identifies as being of Louisiana Creole descent.
Jolivette is a member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana, a nonprofit organization based in Lake Charles, Louisiana,[5] that is an unrecognized tribe. While the organization claims descent from Atakapa, also known as Ishak, it is neither a federally recognized tribe or a state-recognized tribe.[6]
Jolivette earned his bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in English literature and a certificate in ethnic studies from the University of San Francisco.[4] He earned his master's degree in sociology from San Francisco State University in 1999. His thesis was titled, "Native America: White Indians, Black Indians and the Contemporary Privilege of Color."[3] He earned his doctoral degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003, with a dissertation titled "Creole Diaspora: (Re)articulating the Social, Legal, Economic, and Regional Construction of American Indian Identity."[7]
Jolivétte was a professor and chair of the American Indian studies department at San Francisco State University from 2010 to 2016.[8]
He became the founding Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Program at the University of California, San Diego, in 2020. The NAIS Program includes a minor and a graduate certificate and an elder/culture bearer-in-residence program. He served as a historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, an unrecognized tribe, from 2005 to 2010. He co-founded and is co-chair of the University of California Ethnic Studies Council which works to advance and support ethnic studies curriculum and programs across the state of California and the United States.