Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation, meaning Cherokee Nation claims her as a citizen. Recently on fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Black is completing her book manuscript: How to Get Away with Murder: A Transnational History of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. How to Get Away with Murder provides six case studies of women and girls. Professor Black received tenure at Indiana University where she is an Associate Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies. In 2020, she published Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, a deeply archival book making the argument that mid-century Native people navigated the complexities of inhabiting filmic representations of themselves as a means of survivance. She has received several research grants including the Ford pre-, doc and post-doc fellowships; the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA fellowship; and the Cherokee Nation Higher Education Grant.