{"id":127,"date":"2023-06-22T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:18:58","slug":"graduate-affiliates-and-fellows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/graduate-affiliates-and-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Graduate Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the VCL founding, we focused on equipping our graduate students in the latest innovations in language education technology and pedagogy. Throughout its first decade, the Center hosted Graduate Fellows and Affiliates, offering professional development, technology training, and collaborative scholarship opportunities in many languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

Past Graduate Fellows and Affiliates<\/h2>\n

\"smilingKaleigh J. Bangor<\/strong>
\nGerman Language Program Coordinator at the University of Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2016-2018<\/p>\n

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\"smilingRaquel Bostow<\/strong>
\nCreative Project Coordinator at Authors Greater Lexington Area<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2012-2015<\/p>\n

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Abby Broughton<\/strong>
\nDepartment of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, MTSU<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2018-2020<\/p>\n

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\"smilingJacob Brown<\/strong>
\nSpanish Teacher, Battle Ground Academy, Franklin, TN<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2018-2020<\/p>\n

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\"smilingDenise Callejas<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Morehouse College Department of Modern Foreign Languages<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2012-2014<\/p>\n

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Gerald Cory Duclos<\/strong>
\nDirector of the Keck Language Resource Center, Colgate University<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2011-2013<\/p>\n

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\"smilingSahai Couse Diaz<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow<\/p>\n

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Ted Dawson<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of the Practice of German, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2016-2018<\/p>\n

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Danielle Dorvil<\/strong>
\nProgram Assistant<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2019-2022<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Melanie Forehand<\/strong>
\nInstructional Designer, Office of Digital Education, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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\"\" Timothy Foster<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Spanish, West Texas A&M University<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2014-2017<\/p>\n

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\"smilingBraden Goevia<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2019-2020<\/p>\n

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\"portrait Bonnie Griffin<\/strong>
\nInternational Taxonomy Analyst (French) at Indeed.com<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2017-2018, Coordinator of Active Pedagogy<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Xinle Hong<\/strong>
\nPeabody Master’s Program for English Language Learners<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow, Language Panda Contributor<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Annette Joseph-Gabriel<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2013-2015<\/p>\n

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\"portrait Oliver Knabe<\/strong>
\nLecturer of English and German, Film, Literature, Sports, and Social Justice<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2014-2016<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Megan Myers<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Latino Studies and Spanish, Iowa State University<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2014-2016<\/p>\n

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\"portraitJessica Riviere<\/strong>
\nInstructional Designer at University of Michigan-Dearborn<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2012-2014<\/p>\n

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\"portraitAlexandra Rodriguez<\/strong>
\nLecturer in Spanish, Texas A&M University<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2015-2017<\/p>\n

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\"smiling<\/p>\n

Katherine Schaller<\/strong>
\nInstructional Designer at University of California-Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2018-2020<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Brett E. Sterling<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of German in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2011-2013<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Camille Sutton<\/strong>
\nHigh School French and Spanish Teacher, World Languages Department, University School of Nashville<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2012-2014<\/p>\n

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\"smiling Michael Uhuegbu<\/strong>
\nVisiting Assistant Professor of German, Colorado College<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2019-2021<\/p>\n

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\"smiling<\/p>\n

Fernando Varela<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Spanish at Texas Lutheran University<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2019-2020<\/p>\n

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\"smiling<\/p>\n

Steven B. Wenz<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2013-2016<\/p>\n

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\"smilingBryant White<\/strong>
\nPh.D. Student, Department of French and Italian<\/p>\n

Graduate Fellow 2019-2020<\/p>\n

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\"smilingCara Wilson<\/strong>
\nVirtual Learning Experience Coordinator, Kearney<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2017-2018<\/p>\n

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\"smiling<\/p>\n

Sophia Yumi<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Modern Languages, Literature, Cultural Studies at University of Central Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Graduate Affiliate 2017-2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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