Carroll McClure Pastner Lewin (November 26, 1942 – October 20, 2022) was an American anthropologist who worked in Pakistan, and later in the field of Holocaust studies.
[1] She graduated from Oberlin College in 1965, and completed doctoral studies in anthropology at Brandeis University[2] with Helen Codere as her advisor.
[4] Lewin was on the faculty of the University of Vermont for thirty years, from 1971 until her retirement with emerita status in 2001.
[1] In 1977, with her first husband and their young daughter, she conducted participant observation research among the Zikri people on the coast of the Arabian Sea, sponsored by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
[7] In retirement, she used her language and cultural skills as a volunteer at the Shalom Shuk thrift shop, which serves resettled refugees and immigrants in Burlington.