After earning a BA in Art History at Smith College, she went on to study at the University of New Mexico and at Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in Art History in 2001. Morris is a scholar of contemporary Native American art, and she has published widely on topics related to indigenous visual sovereignty and representations of the Native landscape. She has worked as an author and consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Her article, “Running the Medicine Line: Images of the Border in Contemporary Native American Art” appears in the current issue of American Indian Quarterly.