Autor/-in: Liza Black

Liza Black. is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and an associate professor of history and of Native American and Indigenous studies at Indiana University. Her first book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960, reveals how Native actors navigated Hollywood's racialized structures. As a 2024-25 Racial Justice Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and a 2021-22 Visiting Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, she completed How Settlers Get Away with Murder. Her research and public scholarship, featured on NPR, PBS, Red Nation. podcast, and High Country News. , examines the intersections of Indigenous history, representation, and policy.