Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt (born December 12, 1944) is an American folklorist, anthropologist, and historian. She took her bachelor's degree in anthropology at the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

in 1972, followed by a master's degree in folklore at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1978. Following her PhD at Berkeley in 1982, defending the thesis ''American Folkloristics: The Literary and Anthropological Roots'', she was employed at

Davidson College Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after Revolutionary War general William Lee Davidson, who was killed at the nearby Battle of Cowan� ...

in 1983. She held the titles of associate professor from 1988, professor from 1995 and Paul B. Freeland Professor of Anthropology from 1998 to 2001. Having chaired the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Davidson College, Zumwalt Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at

Agnes Scott College Agnes Scott College is a private women's liberal arts college in Decatur, Georgia. The college enrolls approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The college is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and is considered one of the ...

from 2001 to 2010. Zumwalt was elected as a fellow of the

American Folklore Society The American Folklore Society (AFS) is the US-based professional association for folklorists, with members from the US, Canada, and around the world, which aims to encourage research, aid in disseminating that research, promote the responsible ...

in 1996, serving as president from 1999 to 2001. Among her monographies are ''Wealth and Rebellion: Elsie Clews Parsons, Anthropologist and Folklorist '' from 1992. Among her co-edited volumes are ''Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits and Healing the Sick'' with Isaac Jack Lévy in 2002. Her two-volume biography of

Franz Boas Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical ...

, constisting of ''The Emergence of the Anthropologist'' from 2019 and ''Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice'' from 2022, was extensively reviewed.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zumwalt, Rosemary Levy 1944 births Living people American folklorists American historians American anthropologists University of California, Santa Cruz alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Davidson College faculty Agnes Scott College faculty Presidents of the American Folklore Society