Tanja Haupt is a German exchange student visiting UT Austin in Fall 2024. She has an undergraduate degree in International Relations and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in political science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her main areas of interest include American politics and transatlantic relations, making the Texas German Dialect Project of central interest to her. Coming from the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, she is fluent in German as well as the Badisch dialect spoken in southwestern Germany. She is very interested in learning more about the Texas German dialect and comparing it to today’s German.