(I left the program temporarily in fall 2022 to attend to ongoing family matters, and as of fall 2024 have re-entered the MA program on a part-time basis.)

I have a number of research interests even beyond those listed here (some left over from a previous attempt to complete a PhD in anthropology, others new), but the ones shown represent my core foci for this program.  My master's thesis topic is in flux, but will likely center on a particular issue from Indonesian morphophonology, with some "sprinkles" from the syntax world.  I also have a particular interest in the ethnohistory of language change among specific multiple indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest--along with general interests in NLP and computational linguistics broadly, and semantics and translation studies (both in the computational as well as the humanities senses of those areas).

I have been working on the Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics in parallel, but plan to transition soon to the Applied Master's in Statistics, as a concurrent degree program.

In addition to required activities for the Linguistics and Statistics programs, I'm working independently (if not always consistently) on learning Indonesian, Latin, Lushootseed (f/k/a "Puget Salish"; one of the Pacific Northwest languages alluded to above), and Cornish (the language of some of my ancestors)--plus brushing up on my long-dormant Russian.

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Teaching experience:

Instructor of record (Type I teaching assistant), 2021-2022
University of Kentucky, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
(Technical Writing x2/2 semesters)

Instructor and Tutor, 2004-2007
Princeton Review Northwest (Seattle region)
(LSAT prep, MCAT prep)

Adjunct instructor of anthropology, 1995-1996
Seattle University, Department of Sociology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *4, Culture and Personality, Northwest Coast Peoples)

Co-instructor [with Dr Fredrik Barth and Dr Alexander Hinton], 1993
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Southeast Asian Cultures)

Teaching assistant
[with Dr Charles Nuckolls, Dr Michael Harkin, and Dr Euclid O. Smith], 1991-1992, 1994
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
(Introduction to Cultural Anthropology *2, Introduction to Physical Anthropology [lab])

Selected publications and presentations:

Edgewater, I. D. (2022). Toward deep motivation as a factor in language change: Notes on the nasal->stop transition in Lushootseed (Puget Salish).  Paper given at the 10th Annual Central Kentucky Linguistics Conference (CKLiC), April 2022, Lexington, Kentucky.

Edgewater, I. D. (1999).  Music hath charms...: Fragments toward constructionist biocultural theory, with attention to the relationship of "music" and "emotion".  In A. L. Hinton (Ed.), Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Pp. 153-181).  Cambridge University Press.