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 |
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
- ^ "Liza Black". Indiana University.
- ^ "Liza Black". Harvard University.
- ^ Black, Liza (April 22, 2022). "On 'Yellowstone,' and the white desire to control the narrative". High Country News.
- ^ "Pressing pause on 'Killers Of The Flower Moon' and rethinking Scorsese's latest". NPR. November 14, 2023.
- ^ a b Lieberth, Kathrrine (April 17, 2024). "'How to Get Away with Murder': professor gives lecture about missing and murdered Indigenous women". ndsmcobserver.com.
- ^ Black, Liza Elizabeth (1999). "Looking at Indians: American Indians in movies, 1941–1960". Retrieved 2025-02-25.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.