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, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...

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

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in 1978. She earned her PhD at Berkeley in 1982, defending the thesis ''American Folkloristics: The Literary and Anthropological Roots.'' Shortly after her PhD, in 1983, Zumwalt became employed at

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. She held the titles of associate professor from 1988, professor from 1995 and Paul B. Freeland Professor of Anthropology from 1998 to 2001. She chaired the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Davidson College 1992–1996. Zumwalt left Davidson to become Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at

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

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in 1996, serving as president from 1999 to 2001. Among her monographs 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 2008 monograph ''Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906'' was awarded the American Philosophical Society's John Frederick Lewis Award. Her two-volume biography of

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, consisting of ''The Emergence of the Anthropologist'' (2019) and ''Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice'' (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