Lukas Rudzinski is a PhD candidate in Germanic Studies at UT Austin, specializing in digital methods and historical linguistics. He received his BA in Translation Studies from Kent State University (Ohio) and an MA in Germanic Studies from UT Austin. He is interested in the historical developments of Texas German, such as donor dialects. Also, having gone to Kent State near Pennsylvania-German-speaking regions, he was interested in a different variety of German that was also brought by immigrants and maintained.