2026 VCL Scholar Awardees Announced
Congratulations to our 2026 VCL Scholars! These faculty awards represent Vanderbilt’s Hindi-Urdu, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian programs. We celebrate the innovation of their proposals to develop intercultural competence and linguistic proficiency.
Alexis Finet (French and Italian) and Steve Wenz (Spanish and Portuguese)
Building Intercultural Competency and Linguistic Proficiency through the Study of Videogames
Albina Khabibulina (Russian – German, Russian, East European Studies), Benjamin Legg (Portuguese), and Divya Chaudhry (Hindi Urdu – Asian Studies)
Design of an Interdisciplinary Certificate in Intercultural Competence
Carolina Palacios (Spanish and Portuguese)
World Languages in Conversation Podcast