Molly Rozum

South Dakota, Great Plains, North American West, Gender, and Women

Northern Great Plains, North American West, U.S. Canadian Borderlands, U.S. Women's history, Environmental and Cultural history

Mid-Twentieth Century “Artistic Expression of Life on the Plains": Part of the North American Grasslands Regionalism: More than Drought, Dust, and Depression, Gunlogson Research Award, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University, (2025 - 2025)
Kraenzel Manuscript Papers, Montana State University Archives, A&S Faculty Travel Grant, (2025 - 2025)
Northern Great Plains History Conference, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2023 - 2023)
Adele Hast Fellowship in American History, The Newberry Library, (2023 - 2023)
USD History Graduate Program Centennial Conference and Reunion, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2022 - 2022)
USD History Graduate Program Centennial Conference and Reunion, Allene R. Chiesman Educational Fund , (2022 - 2022)
South Dakota Woman Suffrage, South Dakota Humanities Council, (2018 - 2019)
Women Are People Too!: Woman Suffrage in South Dakota, Allene R. Chiesman Fund , (2018 - 2019)
The Environmental History of the Great Plains from Texas to Canada, National Science Foundation, (2017 - 2018)
Sustainable Rivers: Integrating Earth Science & Sustainability Across the Curriculum, National Science Foundation, (2015 - 2016)
Thomas O. Enders Fellowship, Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., (2003 - 2004)
Faculty Research Grant, Doane College2011)
Faculty-Student Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, Doane College2007)
Faculty-Student Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, Doane College2006)
Faculty-Student Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, Doane College2004)
Faculty-Student Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, Doane College2002)

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Rozum, Molly. "Regionalism: A Matter of When as Much as Where", 277-280. Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Lincoln, Nebraska: Middle West Review, 2025.
Rozum, Molly. REPRINT: "Citizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage". In A Legislature of Citizens: South Dakota's First 100 Legislative Sessions, editors Dedra McDonald Birzer, Taylor Blumer, Slater Sabo and Craig Walters, 26-50. Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2025.
Rozum, Molly. “'I felt that the grass was the country': A Literary History of Grasslands". In Routledge Handbook of Grasslands, editors Heather A. Hager, David J. Gibson, and Jonathan A. Newman. Routledge Press, 2025.
Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The North American West in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Brenden W. Rensink, 231-232. Vol. 55, Iss. 3 Western Historical Quarterly, 2024.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane. By Karen R. Jones. Wyoming: Annals of Wyoming, 2023.
Rozum, Molly. Review of The Drama of a Rural Community's Life Cycle: Its Prehistory, Birth, Growth, Maturity, Decline and Rebirth. By S. Roy Kaufman, 212-213. Vol. 41, Iss. 1 Journal of Mennonite Studies, 2023.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World’s Longest Border. Edited by Stephen Brooks and Andrea Olive . Iss. May 2022 H-Environment (H-Net), 2022.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability. By Royden Loewen, 73-75. Vol. 2022, Iss. 7 (Winter) 2022 Winnipeg, Manitoba: Prairie History, 2022.
Rozum, Molly. Review of The Savior of Deadwood: James K.P. Miller on the Gold Frontier. By David Wolf, 216. Vol. 103, Iss. 4 Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska History , 2022.
Rozum, Molly, Brosnan, Kathleen A., and Frehner, Brian. "'Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries': Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest". In Greater Plains: An Environmental History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Rozum, Molly. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies.
Rozum, Molly. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Rozum, Molly. "Partial Voting Rights and the Need for the Nineteenth Amendment: A Short Survey of Suffrage in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas". In Bar Association of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Newsletter.
Rozum, Molly. "Woman Suffrage in South Dakota with Mitchell Episodes". In The Carnegie Courier: Newsletter of the Mitchell Area Historical Society, 3-4, 12. Vol. 8, Iss. 3
Rozum, Molly. Twenty South Dakota Suffragist Biographies. In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States. Virginia: Alexander Street, 2020.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Great Plains Literature by Linda Ray Pratt, 229-231. Vol. 77, Iss. 2 Annals of Iowa, 2019.
Rozum, Molly. Review of This Place, These People: Life and Shadows on the Great Plains, 168-169. Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Lincoln, NE: Middle West Review, 2019.
Rozum, Molly. "Citizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage". In Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2019.
Rozum, Molly, and Lahlum, Lori A.. “'We Will Never Halt till the Prize is Won': An Introduction to Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains". In Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2019.
Rozum, Molly, and Lahlum, Lori A.. Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2019.
Rozum, Molly. Review of A New Deal for South Dakota: Drought, Depression, and Relief, 1920-1941. By R. Alton Lee, 198-200. Vol. 23, Iss. 1 Environmental History, 2019.
Rozum, Molly. Review of The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape, 1-2.. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. H-Environment., 2018.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies, by Carl J. Tracie, 115-116. Vol. 38, Iss. 1 Great Plains Quarterly, 2018.
Rozum, Molly. "It's Weathered Many A Storm": The Enduring Sod House in Northwestern South Dakota", 295-368. Vol. 47, Iss. 4 (Winter) Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota History, 2017.
Rozum, Molly. "The Great Plains and Middle West in ‘Middle America’: Historiographic Reflections", 71-84. Vol. 4 (Fall), Iss. 1 Nebraska: Middle West Review, 2017.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains, by David B. Danbom. Lincoln, Nebraska: Middle West Review, 2017.
Rozum, Molly. Book Review of On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, by Ruth Milkman, 93. Vol. 28, Iss. 1 Lincoln, NE: Great Plains Research, 2017.
Rozum, Molly. Review of The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane by Richard W. Etulain, 109-110. Vol. 97, Iss. 2 Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska History, 2016.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History, eds, by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, 119-120. Vol. 53 Norman, Oklahoma: Journal of Historical Geography, 2016.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Place and Replace: Essays on Western Canada, eds, Adele Perry, Esyllt W. Jones and Leah Morton, 295-297. Iss. 77 Edmonton, Alberta, Athabasca University Press: Labour/Le Travail, 2016.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Insurgent Democracy: The Non partisan League in North American Politics, by Michael Lansing. Helena, Montana: Montana: The Magaine of Western History, 2016.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers, 35-36. Vol. 80, Iss. 1 Bismarck, ND: North Dakota History, 2015.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Uniting the Tribes: The Rise and Fall of Pan-Indian Community on the Crow Reservation by Frank Rzeczkowski, 27-28. Vol. 86, Iss. 4 Cheyenne, Wyoming: Annals of Wyoming, 2014.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Women on the Northern Plains, edited by Renee M. Laegreld and Sandra K. Mathews, 275-276. Vol. 43, Iss. 3 Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota History, 2013.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Time’s Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas, by Arnold J. Bauer, 104. Vol. 94, Iss. 2 Lincoln, Nebraska: Nebraska History, 2013.
Rozum, Molly. Review of The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, edited by Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller and Donald C. Simmons, Jr, 141-142. Vol. 50 Western Social Science Association: The Social Science Journal, 2013.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Atlas of the Great Plains, by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer, 186-188. Vol. 71, Iss. Spring Iowa City, Iowa: Annals of Iowa, 2012.
Rozum, Molly. "History is a Quality of Life Issue," Essay Contributor. In Why We Love History: Perspectives from Authors and Illustrators, 6-7. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2011.
Rozum, Molly. Book Notice of America’s Lingering Wild Great Plains, by Michael Forsberg with Dan O’Brien, David Wishart, and Ted Kooser, 479-480. Vol. 69, Iss. Fall Iowa City, Iowa: Annals of Iowa, 2010.
Rozum, Molly. Book Notice of Prairies and Plains: The Reference Literature of a Region, edited by Robert Balay, 221. Vol. 69, Iss. Spring Iowa City, Iowa: Annals of Iowa, 2010.
Rozum, Molly. Review of Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains, by Tony Rees, 322-323. Vol. 29, Iss. Fall Lincoln, Nebraska: Great Plains Quarterly, 2009.
Rozum, Molly, Fowler, Eric B., and Delaney, Sheila. Small-Town Boy, Small-Town Girl: Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950., Editors Molly P. Rozum. Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota State Historical Society Press , 2009.
Rozum, Molly. “‘That Understanding With Nature’: Region, Race, and Nation in Women’s Stories from the Modern Canadian and American Grasslands Wests.” . In One Step Over the Line: Toward A History of Women in the North American Wests, editors Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus, 129-164. Edmonton & Athabasca: University of Alberta Press and Athabasca University Press, 2008.
Rozum, Molly. “Voices of Place: The Incorrigible Project of Writing Provincial and State History.” , 541-554. Vol. 34, Iss. 3 Washington, SD, Association for Canadian Studies in the United States: American Review of Canadian Studies , 2004.
Rozum, Molly. “‘The Spark that Jumped the Gap’: North America’s Northern Plains and the Experience of Place.” . In One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader, editors Carol Higham and Robert Thacker, 133-147. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2004.
Rozum, Molly. “Indelible Grasslands: Place, Memory, and the ‘Life Review.’”. In Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History, editors Robert Wardhaugh, 119-135. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2001.
Rozum, Molly. “The Relational West.” . In A Companion to Nineteenth-Century America, editors William Barney, 286-300. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The Washington Apple: orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture. By Amanda L. Van Lanen. Journal of American History.

Rozum, Molly, 'Not Lack of Humidity, but Variability': Post-WWII Agricultural Planning and Adult Education for North America's 'Great Plains Region'. Presented at the Ebbs and Flows: Water and Agricultural, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota. (June 07, 2025)
Rozum, Molly, “Where Does the Midwest End and the Plains Begin?”. Presented at the 59th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (September 27, 2024)
Rozum, Molly P., A ‘Sense of Really Belonging to the Community and the Region’: To Gather Settler Colonial Rural Study Groups in Manitoba and South Dakota in the 1940s. Presented at the Migrations & Gatherings in the West: Western Canadian History Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (September 14, 2024)
Rozum, Molly P., The Old Woman Who Never Dies: Settler Colonialism and Sense of Place. Presented at the Annual Dredla Research Series, Crete Nebraska. (April 16, 2024)
Rozum, Molly, Roundtable. The Passing Show: Ending the 'First Cycle': Cather's Changing Frontier. Presented at the Complex and Brilliant: Cather at 150. 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, Red Cloud, Nebraska. (June 03, 2023)
Rozum, Molly, 'The Necessary Vision and the Necessary Skill': Willa Cather, Grasslands Space, and the Cultural Aspirations of Settler Society's First Grasslands Grown Generations. Presented at the Complex and Brilliant: Cather at 150. 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, Red Cloud, Nebraska. (June 01, 2023)
Rozum, Molly, Equality at the Ballot Box: Book Talks, A Conversation . Presented at the South Dakota State Historical Society (Zoom) and Vermillion Public Library (in person)., Vermillion, South Dakota. (March 16, 2023)
Rozum, Molly, Comments on the Importance of the New Book 'Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West.' By Shelia McManus.. Presented at the Lethbridge Border Studies Group & the Department of History, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. (December 02, 2022)
Rozum, Molly P., Roundtable: Place Attachment and Social Science History. Presented at the Social Science History Association (Chicago), Chicago. (November 19, 2022)
Rozum, Molly P., 'In the Hands of the Common People': The Rockefeller Foundation, Settler Colonialism, and Regional Study Groups on the American and Canadian Northern Grasslands in the 1940s. Presented at the Western History Association Annual Meeting (San Antonio), San Antonio. (October 13, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, Animals and Sense of Place on the Northern Grasslands. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Brookings, SD. (September 24, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, State of the Field: Northern Grasslands History. Presented at the 57th Northern Great Plains History Annual Conference, Fargo. (September 23, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, A Very Short and Incomplete History of USD's History Graduate Program. Presented at the History Graduate Program Centennial Conference and Reunion, Vermillion, SD. (September 16, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, Environment, Agriculture, and Regional Identity. Presented at the Agricultural History Association Annual Meeting, Stavanger, Norway. (August 04, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, Book Talk & Signing of Grasslands Grown. Presented at the Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. (May 09, 2022)
Rozum, Molly P., History and Climate Change. Presented at the Worldwide Climate Justice Teach-In, Online. (April 22, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, Place, Region, and Generation on North America’s Prairies and Plains. Presented at the Rural History Roundtable, Guelph, Ontario (ZOOM). (March 10, 2022)
Rozum, Molly, Grasslands Grown: Identity, Environment, & Place. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood (ZOOM). (October 03, 2021)
Rozum, Molly, Research and Writing About Suffrage. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood (ZOOM). (October 01, 2021)
Rozum, Molly, Creating Place on North America’s Northern Grasslands. Presented at the 56th Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire. (September 25, 2021)
Rozum, Molly, Western Women's Political Activism, Past and Present: A Conversation on the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage. Presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Western History Assocaition, Albuquerque, New Mexico (ZOOM). (October 14, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, Equality at the Ballot Box Discussion. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Brookings (ZOOM). (October 04, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, 'Determined to Rise': Women's Historical Activism for Equal Rights in the West. Presented at the National Women's History Museum, Lansing, Michigan and On-Line.. (August 26, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, Woman Suffrage in the Western States. Presented at the Building Democracy: Episode 4 (Woman Suffrage) (August 14, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, Partial Voting Rights and the Need for the Nineteenth Amendment: A Survey of the U.S. Woman Suffrage Moment in the Eighth Judicial Circuit States. Presented at the 2020 Eighth Circuit Conference and Celebration of the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, Omaha. (August 06, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, South Dakota Democracy 1890: Who should Vote?. Presented at the Her Vote. Her Voice: How Radical Live Podcast Series, Online. (July 13, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, Woman Suffrage on the Northern Plains. Presented at the Western Writers of America Convention, Rapid City, South Dakota. (June 18, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, 'Press Fearlessly for Right Must Prevail': Episodes in the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Dakotas. Presented at the Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls. (April 24, 2020)
Rozum, Molly, The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage". Presented at the Women's Suffrage on the Northern Plains: A Symposium, Laramie. (November 08, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Suffrage in the Dakotas. Presented at the North Dakota Book Festival, Ellendale. (November 03, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Woman Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains: Observations and Directions. Presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, Las Vegas, Nevada. (October 17, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Equality at the Ballot Box: Woman Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood. (October 05, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Comment: New Books, New Directions on the Northern Great Plains. Presented at the 54th Northern Great Plains History Conference, Manitoba, Canada. (September 27, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Woman Suffrage and Land in South Dakota 1890. Presented at the 54th Northern Great Plains History Conference, Manitoba, Canada. (September 25, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, The 1890 South Dakota Referenda on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage. Presented at the Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. (June 04, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Settler Society Woman Suffrage and Indigenous Voting: Referenda in South Dakota’s 1890 Election. Presented at the UnTold Stories: USD's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference, Vermillion Public Library. (March 14, 2019)
Rozum, Molly, Suffrage Round Table: South Dakota's 1918 Votes for Women Campaign. Presented at the 53rd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Mankato, Minnesota. (September 21, 2018)
Rozum, Molly P., Smith, Jordan, Schnell, Sydnee, Lynch, Ashley, Jungers, Samantha, Tuttle, Alexis, Taft, Adriana, and Lewis, Maria, Celebrate 100 Years of South Dakota Woman Suffrage, 1918-2018. Presented at the USD Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, MUC Pit Lounge, USD, Vermillion. (March 28, 2018)
Rozum, Molly P., 'The Dawning of a Better and Brighter Day for Agriculture in Both the Great Democratic North Countries of America': The Rise and Fall of Rural Credits on the Northern Grasslands in South Dakota and Manitoba". Presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the Western History Association, San Diego, California. (November 02, 2017)
Rozum, Molly P., Women and Gender in the West. Presented at the 52nd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota. (October 06, 2017)
Rozum, Molly P., Celebrating Woman Suffrage. Presented at the 52nd Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota. (October 05, 2017)
Rozum, Molly, The Non-Partisan League in the Dakotas. Presented at the Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls. (April 23, 2016)
Rozum, Molly, From Reform to Depression on the Northern Grasslands: Case Studies in United States and Canadian Agricultural Policy. Presented at the 55th Annual Conference of the Western History Association, Portland, Oregon. (October 23, 2015)
Rozum, Molly, Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics--A Critique. Presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, North Dakota. (October 02, 2015)
Rozum, Molly, 1970: Women's Rights as Workers Before and After". Presented at the Understanding Feminim Today, USD. (February 18, 2015)
Rozum, Molly, Why Western Women's and Gender History Matters. Presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference (October 10, 2014)
Rozum, Molly, Race, Region, and Biography: from The South to South Dakota. Presented at the Symposium in Honor of Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (September 20, 2014)
Rozum, Molly, Title 9 and The Female College Experience Over Time. Presented at the Biennial Women and Gender Research Conference, Vermillion, SD. (September 19, 2012)
Rozum, Molly, Commentary on The Plains Political Tradition. Presented at the The 44th Annual Dakota Conference: A National Conference on the Northern Plains”, Sioux Falls. (April 28, 2012)

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