Buffalo, New York
1927 - 2020
MATHIOT - Madeleine PhD. Professor Emeritus, University of Buffalo. June 11, 1927 - December 4, 2020. Loved by her son, Craig Garvin, and daughter-in-law, Patty Zerhusen (Cambridge, MA), as well as her intentional family and many friends throughout a variety of Buffalo communities. Visit
Read MoreDr. Mathiot was instrumental in helping me apply her linguistic approach to the study of neighborhood change and served on my PHD committee.I will always remember her fondly and with appreciation. Rest in piece lovely lady.
Robert Fishman
February 01, 2021 | Arlington, VA | Student
Dr. Mathiot was my linguistics professor from 1984 - 1986. I worked for her typing notes from her sociolinguistic field interviews. One day, there was a storm that flooded my basement (where I slept and worked). It was a weekend and I was in Rochester visiting family. When neighbors called to alert me that my house was flooded, I was shocked to find everything I owned floating in wait high water! The notes I was expected to type for my professor we´re floating too. It was one of the...
Susan Smith Fetta
January 28, 2021
I have had the honor of seeing Madeline monthly for the past 10 years. A wise and wonderful soul. My heart aches as I will miss her so very much. I know she is in a much better place. My sympathy to her family and friends
Cathi Stack
December 23, 2020 | Youngstown, NY | Friend
Dear Family,
I knew Madeleine as a member of the Anthropology Department. I did not follow her work closely but I do remember her very fondly. She spent considerable time with me helping me understand the importance of linguistic taxonomy and its implications for my archaeological work. I should not make too many assumptions and analogies - a wheel is not necessarily a wheel.
We used to talk about the Papago. Taking my Ph.D. in Tucson and doing considerable field work in...
Ezra Zubrow
December 14, 2020 | Amherst, NY | Coworker
