Liz is a historian of early American and Native American History. She is the current Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and she will join the New York University history department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2017. Liz is also a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, and she has done American Indian advocacy work in Louisiana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.