Rod Edwards has been with the CLC since 2004, when he began working as acting student manager, and was hired as full-time staff in 2008. He is currently the Center’s in-house IT and AV support and also oversees the Center’s daily operation. Rod earned an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law. He is currently working towards his M.S. in Computer Science here at the University of Chicago. Rod’s linguistic interests focus on historical and comparative studies, primarily among Afro-Asiatic languages.  A self-professed language geek, he has formally studied a smattering of languages:  French, German, Italian, Old English, Old Irish, Classical Greek, Latin, Arabic, Akkadian, Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, Sabaean, Ge‘ez, Middle Egyptian, and Coptic. His legal interests include the intersection of technology and the law, and intellectual property law. He is a member of the Illinois Bar.