Her Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and she specializes in the history of the American West, with an emphasis on the Northern Plains. Rozum’s most recent article appears in the edited collection, One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests. Recently, she edited Small-Town Boy, Small-Town Girl: Growing Up in South Dakota, 1920-1950. She grew up in Mitchell.