L. Rowell Huesmann (1943-2025)

L. Rowell Huesmann, Amos N. Tversky collegiate emeritus professor of communication studies and psychology and research professor in the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan, passed away peacefully at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on December 21, 2025. Rowell was an internationally recognized scholar. His research focused on understanding the causes of aggressive and violent behavior and how those causes exert influence. He developed an integrated social-cognitive model to explain how aggression is learned over time from childhood onward and how it transmits across generations. Rowell achieved many academic honors during his distinguished career and his greatest academic enjoyment was in mentoring the next generation of aggression researchers, whom he trained and then treated as collaborators. Rowell was intellectually intense, organized, determined, detail oriented, and generous with his time and energy for his family, friends, and students. He was a die-hard fan of the Michigan Wolverines, a sports enthusiast and life-long athlete, and a world traveler a few times over and well read. Rowell was preceded in death by the love of his life, Penny, to whom he was married for 60 years, and he is survived by his children, Kimberly (John) Larsen and Graham Rowell, and grandchildren, Nicholas, Ryan, and McKenna. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).