Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation, an Associate Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Indiana University, and a 2024–25 Racial Justice Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Her first book, Picturing Indians (2020), explores how Native actors resisted and navigated midcentury Hollywood’s racialized labor structures. Her forthcoming book, How Settlers Get Away with Murder (Beacon Press, 2026), investigates the systemic nature of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people across North America. Drawing from oral histories, legal records, and survivor testimony, Black reveals how settler colonialism authorizes this violence by design, not failure, demanding systemic dismantling, not symbolic reform.
