Profile

Lance R. Askildson, Ph.D. 
• Assistant Provost for Internationalization
• Director of the Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures
• Associate Professor of the Practice, Second Language Acquisition
• Faculty Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
• Faculty Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

Askildson has a multiplicity of roles and responsibilities at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Assistant Provost for Internationalization and Director the Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures (CSLC) — providing strategic planning and leadership for Notre Dame’s international studies programs and internationalization initiatives as well as support and programming for foreign/second language and service programs on and off campus. He is an associate professor who teaches coursework on applied linguistics, international studies and language education and pursues research on second language acquisition; He administers Notre Dame’s summer study abroad programs that send students to study language and participate in service learning projects at dozens of sites around the world each summer; He directs an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program and faculty that provides English language support and community engagement opportunities to Notre Dame’s international student population; He is a fellow and active member of both the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies; and he also serves as the Secretary to the International Association of Language Learning Technology (IALLT) as well as the Managing Editor of the organization’s academic journal.