Selected Publications

Molly Rogers, “An Uncommon and Grievous Calamity,” Colorado Review, forthcoming (fall 2026).

Molly Rogers, “House of Fear,” Colorado Review, vol. 48, no. 1 (Spring 2021): pp. 33-48.

Notable Essay of 2021, The Best American Essays 2022.

Read editorial assistant Nicole Piasecki’s interview with Molly on Colorado Review’s website.

Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, and Debora Willis, eds., To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (Aperture/Peabody Museum Press, 2020).

Historical Book Award, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2021.

Molly Rogers, “Twice Captured: The Work of Atrocity Photography,” Routledge Companion to Photography Theory, Mark Durden and Jane Tormey, eds. (London: Routledge, 2019): 228-242.

Molly Rogers, “Stricken,” War Memoranda: Photography, Walt Whitman, and Memorials, Binh Danh and Robert Schultz, eds. (Roanoke, VA: Taubman Museum of Art, 2019): 55-61.

Molly Rogers, Delia’s Tears: Race, Science and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010).

Editor’s Choice, Booklist, ‘one of the best titles published in 2010.’
Honorary Mention, Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, 2010.