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Molly Rozum
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Associate Professor/Ronald M. Nelson Distinguished Professor Department of History
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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
- Ph D, U.S. History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
- MA, American Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
- BA, American Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1987
- 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)
- 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)
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- Rozum, Molly P.. “'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.. "Regionalism: A Matter of When as Much as Where", 277-280. Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Lincoln, Nebraska: Middle West Review, 2025.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 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 P.. Review of Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane by Karen R. Jones, 53-54. Vol. 95, Iss. Spring/Summer Annals of Wyoming, 2023.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 P.. Review of Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World’s Longest Border edited by Stephen Brooks and Andrea Olive.. Iss. May H-Environment (H-Net), 2022.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability by Royden Loewen., 73-75. Vol. 7, Iss. 4 Winnipeg, Manitoba: Prairie History, 2022.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The Savior of Deadwood: James K.P. Miller on the Gold Frontier by David Wolff., 216. Vol. 103, Iss. 4 Nebraska History , 2022.
- Rozum, Molly P.. "'Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries': Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest". In Greater Plains: An Environmental History, editors Kathleen A. Brosnan and Brian Frehner, 253-275. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln and Winnipeg: University of Nebraska Press and University of Manitoba Press, 2021.
- Rozum, Molly P.. "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 P.. "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 P.. Twenty South Dakota Suffragist Biographies. In Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States, editors Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. Virginia: Alexander Street, 2020.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Great Plains Literature by Linda Ray Pratt., 229-231. Vol. 77, Iss. 2 Annals of Iowa, 2019.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of This Place, These People: Life and Shadows on the Great Plains by Nancy Warner and David Stark., 168-169. Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Middle West Review, 2019.
- Rozum, Molly P.. "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, editors Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly P Rozum, 240-263. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2019.
- Rozum, Molly P., 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, editors Lori Ann Lahlum and Molly P Rozum, 1-30. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2019.
- Rozum, Molly P., and Lahlum, Lori A.. (Eds.) Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2019.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 P.. Review of The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape by Cheri Register., 1-2.. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. H-Environment, 2018.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 P.. "It's Weathered Many A Storm": The Enduring Sod House in Northwestern South Dakota", 295-368. Vol. 47, Iss. 4 Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota History, 2017.
- Rozum, Molly P.. "The Great Plains and Middle West in ‘Middle America’: Historiographic Reflections", 71-84. Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Middle West Review, 2017.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains by David B. Danbom, 75-77. Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Middle West Review, 2017.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of On Gender, Labor, and Inequality by Ruth Milkman., 93. Vol. 28, Iss. 1 Great Plains Research, 2017.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane by Richard W. Etulain., 109-110. Vol. 97, Iss. 2 Nebraska History, 2016.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Contingent Maps: Rethinking Western Women's History edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett., 119-120. Vol. 53 Journal of Historical Geography, 2016.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Place and Replace: Essays on Western Canada edited by Adele Perry, Esyllt W. Jones, and Leah Morton., 295-297. Vol. 77, Iss. 2 Edmonton, Alberta: Labour/Le Travail, 2016.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics by Michael Lansing, 74-76. Vol. 66, Iss. 1 (Winter) Montana the Magazine of Western History, 2016.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment., 35-36. Vol. 80, Iss. 1 North Dakota History, 2015.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 Annals of Wyoming, 2014.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Women on the Northern Plains edited by Renee M. Laegreid and Sandra K. Mathews., 275-276. Vol. 43, Iss. 3 South Dakota History, 2013.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Time’s Shadow: Remembering a Family Farm in Kansas by Arnold J. Bauer., 104. Vol. 94, Iss. 2 Nebraska History, 2013.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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 The Social Science Journal, 2013.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer., 186-188. Vol. 71, Iss. 2 Annals of Iowa, 2012.
- Rozum, Molly P.. "History is a Quality of Life Issue," Essay Contributor, Chapbook. In Why We Love History: Perspectives from Authors and Illustrators, 6-7. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society Press, 2011.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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. 4 Annals of Iowa, 2010.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Book Notice of Prairies and Plains: The Reference Literature of a Region edited by Robert Balay., 221. Vol. 69, Iss. 2 Annals of Iowa, 2010.
- Rozum, Molly P.. 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. 4 Great Plains Quarterly, 2009.
- Rozum, Molly. Review of Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier by Cynthia Culver Prescott., 88. Vol. 39, Iss. 2 South Dakota History, 2009.
- Rozum, Molly P.. (Ed.), Annotated, and Introduction for Small-Town Boy, Small-Town Girl: Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950, memoirs by Eric B. Fowler and Sheila Delaney. Pierre, South Dakota: South Dakota State Historical Society Press , 2009.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of One West, Two Myths II: Essays on Comparison edited by C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker., 235-236. Vol. 28, Iss. 3 Great Plains Quarterly, 2008.
- Rozum, Molly P.. “‘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 P.. Review of Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking their Path by Nancy M. Peterson., 104-105. Vol. 88, Iss. 4 Nebraska History, 2007.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West edited by Lorry Felske and Beverly Rasporich., 206-207. Vol. 26, Iss. 3 Great Plains Quarterly, 2006.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History and the Forty-Ninth Parallel edited by Sterling Evans., 91-92. Vol. 56, Iss. 1 Montanan the Magazine of History, 2006.
- Rozum, Molly P.. “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 P.. Review of A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 by Francis M. Carroll., 154-156. Vol. 34, Iss. 2 American Review of Canadian Studies, 2004.
- Rozum, Molly P.. “‘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 P.. Review of Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941 by Brad D. Lookingbill., 2-3. Vol. 24, Iss. 4 Great Plains Newsletter, 2003.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression edited and introduced by Robert Cohen. Iss. June [email protected], 2003.
- Rozum, Molly P.. Review of The American West: The Invention of a Myth by David H. Murdoch., 72-73. Vol. 34, Iss. 2 Western Historical Quarterly, 2003.
- Rozum, Molly P.. “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 P.. “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.
- Richard and Sharon Cutler Award in Liberal Arts, Humanities Division, University of South Dakota, 2023
- Blair and Linda Tremere Faculty Public Service Award, University of South Dakota, 2021
- Gold Medal, Mid-West—Best Regional Non-Fiction Book of 2009, Independent Publishers of America Book Awards, 2010
- Pauline Maier Best Dissertation in American History for 2001 Prize, The Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002
- Rozum, Molly P., 'Not Lack of Humidity, but Variability': Post-WWII Agricultural Planning and Adult Education for North America's 'Great Plains Region'. Presented at the Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, St. Paul, Minnesota. (June 07, 2025)
- Rozum, Molly P., “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. (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 P., 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 P., '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 P., and Lahlum, Lori A., Equality at the Ballot Box: Book Talks, A Conversation . (March 16, 2023)
- Rozum, Molly P., Comments on the Importance of the New Book 'Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West.' By Shelia McManus (Zoom)., Alberta, Canada. (December 02, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., Roundtable: Place Attachment and Social Science History. Presented at the Social Science History Association, 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. (October 13, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., Animals and Sense of Place on the Northern Grasslands. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Brookings, SD. (September 24, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., State of the Field: Northern Grasslands History. Presented at the 57th Northern Great Plains History Annual Conference, Fargo, North Dakota. (September 23, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., A Very Short and Incomplete History of USD's History Graduate Program. Presented at the History Graduate Program Centennial Conference and Reunion, Vermillion. (September 16, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., Environment, Agriculture, and Regional Identity. Presented at the Agricultural History Association Annual Meeting, Stavanger, Norway. (August 04, 2022)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., 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 P., Grasslands Grown: Identity, Environment, & Place. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood (Zoom). (October 03, 2021)
- Rozum, Molly P., Research and Writing About Suffrage. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Deadwood (Zoom). (October 01, 2021)
- Rozum, Molly P., Creating Place on North America’s Northern Grasslands. Presented at the 56th Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire. (September 25, 2021)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Zoom). (October 14, 2020)
- Rozum, Molly P., Equality at the Ballot Box Discussion. Presented at the South Dakota Festival of Books, Brookings (Zoom). (October 04, 2020)
- Rozum, Molly P., Determined to Rise': Women's Historical Activism for Equal Rights in the West. Presented at the National Women's History Museum, Lansing, Michigan and Online.. (August 26, 2020)
- Rozum, Molly P., Woman Suffrage on the Northern Plains. Presented at the Western Writers of America Convention, Rapid City, South Dakota. Canceled due to Pandemic.. (June 18, 2020)
- Rozum, Molly P., and Lahlum, Lori A., 'Press Fearlessly for Right Must Prevail': Episodes in the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Dakotas. Presented at the Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Canceled due to pandemic.. (April 24, 2020)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., Suffrage in the Dakotas. Presented at the North Dakota Book Festival (November 03, 2019)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., and Lahlum, Lori A., 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 P., 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 P., Woman Suffrage and Land in South Dakota 1890. Presented at the 54th Northern Great Plains History Conference, Manitoba, Canada. (September 25, 2019)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., Settler Society Woman Suffrage and Indigenous Voting: Referenda in South Dakota’s 1890 Election. Presented at the UnTold Stories: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Conference, Vermillion. (March 14, 2019)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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., '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, The Nonpartisan League in the Dakotas. Presented at the Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls. (April 23, 2016)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., 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 P., 1970: Women's Rights as Workers Before and After". Presented at the Understanding Feminism Today, University of South Dakota, Vermillion. (February 18, 2015)
- Rozum, Molly P., Why Western Women's and Gender History Matters. Presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (October 10, 2014)
- Rozum, Molly P., 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 P., Title 9 and The Female College Experience Over Time. Presented at the Biennial Women and Gender Research Conference, Vermillion. (September 19, 2012)
- Rozum, Molly P., Commentary on The Plains Political Tradition. Presented at the 44th Annual Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls. (April 28, 2012)