MaggieRossmanPhD'18Maggie Rossman passed away on Sept. 27, 2023.

Rossman was a loving family member, an enthusiastic educator, and an incredible friend. She graduated from Harvard College in 2006 and earned a master of fine arts in film studies at Boston University. She went on to receive her doctorate degree in communication and culture at IU.

Rossman taught college courses at Boston University, IU, and Butler University as a teaching fellow. She became an assistant professor of communications at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she did academic work on fandom, media, and gender and shared her research with the academic world through publishing and presentations.