{"id":2365,"date":"2026-04-01T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:09:55","slug":"2026-vcl-scholar-awardees-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/2026\/04\/01\/2026-vcl-scholar-awardees-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 VCL Scholar Awardees Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our 2026 VCL Scholars<\/a>!\u00a0 These faculty awards represent Vanderbilt\u2019s Hindi-Urdu, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian programs.<\/span> We celebrate the innovation of their proposals to develop intercultural competence and linguistic proficiency.<\/p>\n

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Alexis Finet<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Steven Wenz<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Albina Khabibulina<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Benjamin Legg<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Divya Chaudhry<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Carolina Palacios<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Alexis Finet<\/strong> (French and Italian) and Steve Wenz<\/strong> (Spanish and Portuguese)<\/p>\n

Building Intercultural Competency and Linguistic Proficiency through<\/em>\u00a0the Study of Videogames<\/em><\/p>\n

Albina Khabibulina<\/strong> (Russian \u2013 German, Russian, East European Studies), Benjamin Legg<\/strong> (Portuguese), and Divya Chaudhry<\/strong> (Hindi Urdu – Asian Studies)<\/p>\n

Design of an Interdisciplinary Certificate in Intercultural Competence<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Carolina Palacios<\/strong> (Spanish and Portuguese)<\/p>\n

World Languages in Conversation<\/em> Podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our 2026 VCL Scholars!\u00a0 These faculty awards represent Vanderbilt\u2019s 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2026\/03\/Blog-Post-Thumbnails.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/center-for-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}