Margo Blevins, the previous Graduate Research Assistant (i.e., Project Manager) for the Texas German Dialect Project, completed her PhD in August 2022. Her dissertation, titled The language-tagging & orthographic normalization of spoken mixed-language data, with a focus on Texas German, proposes ways to streamline the annotation of Texas German transcripts to make them more usable for researchers.
Margo was first introduced to the TGDP in 2012 when she took Hans Boas’ course on Texas German at UT Austin and went on a trip to Wall, Texas to conduct interviews. She has been working with the TGDP since 2016, either as the Project Manager, or as more general support. For the next year, she will continue working with the TGDP as a postdoc and she looks forward to making significant headway on several of TGDP projects.