Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt (born December 12, 1944) is an American folklorist, anthropologist, and historian.
She earned her PhD at Berkeley in 1982, defending the thesis American Folkloristics: The Literary and Anthropological Roots.
Zumwalt left Davidson to become Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at Agnes Scott College from 2001 to 2010.
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, consisting of The Emergence of the Anthropologist (2019) and Shaping Anthropology and Fostering Social Justice (2022), was extensively reviewed.