Ellen Jones Schoedler completed her PhD in Germanic Studies at UT Austin in 2025. She initially joined the project in January 2021 as an additional Graduate Research Assistant. Coming to Austin from Vermont, she completed her undergraduate studies in Linguistics and German at the University of Vermont in 2019. Her research focuses on speaker identity and community dynamics in relation to the maintenance and loss of minority/regional languages. She has written about both Texas German and a variety of Low German spoken in northwestern Germany.