Liza Black

Liza Black
Born	Liza Elizabeth Black United States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Professor, scholar, author, writer, commentator
Academic background
Education	University of Washington
Thesis	Looking at Indians: American Indians in movies, 1941–1960  (1999)
Website	lizablack.com

Liza Elizabeth Black is an American historian and scholar of Native American studies. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Black is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles and an assistant professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Indiana University. ^{[1] [2]}

Black is also an author, writer and commentator. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Education

Black earned her PhD in history from the University of Washington. She defended her dissertation, Looking at Indians: American Indians in movies, 1941–1960, in 1999. ^[6]

Publications

Books

• Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960 (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
• How to Get Away with Murder: A Transnational History of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (2024) ^[5]

Chapters

• Black, Liza (2022-04-20), "Native People and American Film and TV" , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.908, ISBN   978-0-19-932917-5 , retrieved 2025-02-25
• "Native Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter: The Murder of Savanna Greywind and the Abduction of Haisley Jo Greywind". The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West. Routledge. 2022. doi:10.4324/9781351174282-15.

Articles

• Black, Liza (2001). "The Predicament of Identity" . Ethnohistory. 48 (1): 337–350. doi:10.1215/00141801-48-1-2-337. ISSN   1527-5477.

References

1. "Liza Black". Indiana University .
2. "Liza Black". Harvard University .
3. Black, Liza (April 22, 2022). "On 'Yellowstone,' and the white desire to control the narrative". High Country News.
4. "Pressing pause on 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' and rethinking Scorsese's latest". NPR. November 14, 2023.
5. Lieberth, Kathrrine (April 17, 2024). "'How to Get Away with Murder': professor gives lecture about missing and murdered Indigenous women". ndsmcobserver.com.
6. Black, Liza Elizabeth (1999). "Looking at Indians: American Indians in movies, 1941–1960" . Retrieved 2025-02-25.
7. Fisher, Andrew H. (2023-03-01). "Liza Black. Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960" . The American Historical Review . 128 (1): 480–481. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhad052. ISSN   0002-8762.
8. Seewood, Andre (2021). "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960 by Liza Black" . The American Indian Quarterly . 45 (4): 405–407. doi:10.1353/aiq.2021.0029. ISSN   1534-1828.
9. Lawson, Angelica (2022-02-01). "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960. By Liza Black" . Western Historical Quarterly . 53 (1): 94–95. doi:10.1093/whq/whab133. ISSN   0043-3810.
10. Pelletier, Steve (2020-03-01). "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960. By Liza Black". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 44 (2). ISSN   0161-6463.
11. Jenkins, Jennifer L (2021). "Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941–1960 by Liza Black" . Southwestern Historical Quarterly . 125 (1): 98–99. doi:10.1353/swh.2021.0061. ISSN   1558-9560.

External links

• Official website
• Conversation with Liza Black