Florence Marie "Flo" Voegelin (néeHarmon; 1927 – January 9, 1989), also known as Florence Marie Robinett and Florence Marie Robinett Voegelin, was an American anthropologist and linguist. She was a prominent figure in the documentation of the indigenous languages of North America, and co-wrote many articles and books with her second husband, Carl Voegelin. She also published under the name F.M. Voegelin and other variants.
She married and divorced Ralph Robinett by 1952. Her second husband was Carl (Charles) Voegelin, a prominent linguist and anthropologist who was her graduate advisor at Indiana University. They married in 1954, and they remained married until his death in 1986.[1]
She worked at various points as a research associate at the Museum of Northern Arizona[2] and also as a member of the Indiana University Field Station.[3]
Voegelin's research centered on indigenous languages of the American Southwest. Her dissertation work was on Hidatsa, a Siouan language spoken in North Dakota and South Dakota.[5] She also worked on Hopi and comparative Uto-Aztecan. She co-authored numerous publications with Carl Voegelin, including work on Shawnee and a series of fascicles on the languages of the world with an eye toward comparative studies, which was also published as an independent volume in 1977. She also had ongoing friendly relationships with Mrs. Seumptewa, a speaker of Hopi, and Margaret Haven, a Hidatsa speaker.[1]
Voegelin was known as Florence Marie Robinett, Florence Marie Robinett Voegelin and also published as F.M. Voegelin[6] and Florence M. Robinett.[7] She was usually called "Flo".
Voegelin was honored with a dinner at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson and an exhibit entitled Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists in the Southwest, 1880-1980.[1]
Robinett, Florence M. 1954. First report on the Archives of Languages of the World. IJAL 20(3):241-247.
Robinett, Florence M. 1955. Hidatsa I, II, and III. IJAL 21:1-7, 160–177, 210–216.
Voegelin, Carl F., and Florence M. Voegelin. 1957. Hopi domains: A lexical approach to the problem of selection. Indiana University Publications in Anthropology and Linguistics: Memoir 14.
Voegelin, Carl F., and Florence M. Voegelin. 1959. Guide to transcribing unwritten languages in field work. Anthropological Linguistics 1:1-28.
Voegelin, Carl F., Florence M. Voegelin, and Kenneth Hale. 1962. Typological and Comparative Grammar of Uto-Aztecan; I, Phonology. IJAL Memoir no. 17.
Voegelin, Carl F., and Florence M. Voegelin. 1962. Typological and comparative grammar of Uto-Aztecan. IJAL 28(1):210-213.
Voegelin, Carl F., and Florence M. Voegelin. 1967. Passive transformations form non-transitive bases in Hopi. IJAL 33:276-281.
Voegelin, Carl F., and Florence M. Voegelin. 1977. Classification and index of the world's languages. (Foundations of Linguistics series). New York: Elsevier.
