Rodney Edwards

curriculum vitae: October 2003

 

University of Chicago
Department of Linguistics
1010 E 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
+1 (773) 702-8522

redwards@uchicago.edu

 

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Education

 

      [2007]      Ph.D. in Linguistics and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,

                             University of Chicago.  Expected June 2007.

 

      2001         M.A. in Linguistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

                             Thesis: The development of the Southern double-object

                             construction.

                             Committee: Gert Webelhuth (chair), H. Craig Melchert, Walt

                             Wolfram.

 

      1999         B.A. with highest honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

                             Linguistics with distinction.  Phi Beta Kappa.

                             Minor: Classical Greek.

                             Honors thesis: A Southern twang: anticipatory and perseveratory

                             nasalization in Southern American English.

                             Advisor: Megan J. Crowhurst

 

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Teaching experience

 

Linguistics Department, University of Chicago

      2003-2004:

               Course Assistant: Phonology I with Alan Yu

               Course Assistant: Phonology II with Alan Yu

 

      2002-2003:

               Course Assistant: Phonology I with Gunnar Hansson

               Course Assistant: Phonology II with Gunnar Hansson

 

Linguistics Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      2000-2001:

               Introduction to Linguistics (two semesters)

 

      1999-2000:

               Course Assistant: Introduction to Linguistics with Randall Hendrick

               Introduction to Linguistics

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Other work

 

      2001       Administrative assistant, Carolina Environmental Program, University

                             of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

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Languages (in decreasing order of proficiency)

 

      English (native), French, Classical Greek, Classical Hebrew, Modern Standard

            Arabic, Classical Latin, German.

 

      Completed at least one year of coursework in Akkadian, Coptic, Middle

            Egyptian.

 

      Also completed at least a single term of coursework in Old English, Old Irish,

            Epigraphical South Arabic.

 

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Service

 

      2003-               Student Government Representative, Graduate Council, Humanities Division

                                    University of Chicago.

      2000-2001       Co-president of Linguistics Graduate student group, University of

                                    North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

      1999-2001       Senator, Department of Linguistics, Graduate and Professional Student

                                    Federation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Reviewing

      Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) (2002, 2003)

      Carolina Linguistics Circle, Spring Colloquium (2000, 2001)

 

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Academic Honors

 

      2001-               Century Scholarship, University of Chicago

      2000-2001       Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Arabic

      1999                Marc Adam Eisdorfer Undergraduate Award for Excellence in

                                    Linguistics

 

Research assistantships

 

      2002-               Mayan Project, Language Faculty Resource Center, University of

                                    Chicago

      2002                METEOR Project, Language Faculty Resource Center, University of

                                    Chicago

      1998-1999       Worked with Dr. Megan Crowhurst on Gwarani and Gwarayo