(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.  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 am also working on the Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics.

While away from the program, among other things I've been working independently on learning Indonesian, Latin, Lushootseed (f/k/a "Puget Salish"), and Cornish (the language of some of my ancestors), plus brushing up on my long-dormant Russian, and beefing up my computational and programming skills a bit.

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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.