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Alex McAllister, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND DEAN OF THE COLLEGE
H. W. STODGHILL, JR. AND ADELE H. STODGHILL PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS

Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY, 40422
Phone: 859.238.5225
Email: alex.mcallister@centre.edu

Biography

Alex McAllister joined the Centre College faculty in 1999, and is H. W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Mathematics and joined the Dean’s office in 2019 as associate dean. In 2009, he received the Kirk Teaching Award, and has been honored as a Centre Scholar both in 2005 and in 2010. He has prior teaching experience as a visiting assistant professor at Dartmouth College and a graduate instructor at the University of Notre Dame. McAllister was also a research assistant at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

McAllister’s scholarly interests include mathematical logic and foundations, and computability theory. His articles have been published in the Archive for Mathematical Logic, the Journal of Symbolic Logic, and the Mathematical Logic Quarterly. In 2009, Oxford University Press published A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course, which McAllister co-authored with William Johnston of Randolph-Macon College.

McAllister holds a B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Pi Mu Epsilon.

EXPERT: Mathematical logic — Foundations and computability theory

Research interests in mathematical logic and foundations and computability theory. Articles published in Archive for Mathematical Logic and the Journal of Symbolic Logic.

January Haile, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
ELIZABETH MOLLOY DOWLING PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY, 40422
Phone: 859.238.5880
Email: january.haile@centre.edu

Biography

January Haile joined the faculty at Centre College in 2008 and earned the full professor title in 2024.  Haile has served as the Chair of the Division of Science and Mathematics since 2022. 

Raised in Athens, Tennessee, Haile graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in biology and chemistry from Emory & Henry College.  She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Virginia Tech.  Her Ph.D. research focused on characterizing kinases in Archaea to understand the effects of phosphorylation of protein activity.   

Haile regularly teaches General Chemistry, Introduction to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Cellular Metabolism. Haile focuses on having her students deeply involved in their own learning, often relating material to “real world” concepts.  Haile has received several awards, including the Rookie of Year (2009), Centre Scholar (2012-2014), Virginia Tech’s Outstanding Departmental Recent Alumni Award for biochemistry (2013).  

Haile is highly active on campus; she has chaired the Division of Science and Mathematics, Chemistry Program, the subcommittee on General Education Mission and Learning Goals of the Committee on Curriculum and Academic Standards, chair of the General Education Implementation Committee, and co-chair of the strategic planning subcommittee on access and availability, as well as serving on the Strategic Planning steering committee.  Haile is heavily involved at her alma mater as well, serving on the Board of Trustees at Emory & Henry College, since 2021. 


Ian Wilson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Ian Wilson

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
H.W. STODGHILL, JR. AND ADELE H. STODGHILL PROFESSOR OF GERMAN

Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY, 40422
Phone: 859.238.5241
Email: ian.wilson@centre.edu

Biography

Ian Wilson joined the Centre College faculty in the fall of 2003 as a visiting instructor of German and Humanities. He was awarded Centre’s “Rookie of the Year” in 2004 and in 2005 received the Kirk Award for excellence in teaching. He was named a Centre Scholar in 2009 and in 2015, a two-year appointment recognizing teaching excellence, scholarship, and contributions to the Centre community. He was named to a three-year term as assistant dean of general education in 2022.

He teaches courses in German language, literature, and culture; film studies; and the “Doctrina Lux Mentis” (DLM) course sequence. He often takes students abroad to Europe during the CentreTerm, focusing on three general topics: the memory of World War II; intercultural interactions in Central Europe; and German Romanticism. He has also been abroad with students during the summer and long terms: he directed the Centre-in-Strasbourg program in 2008-09 and in 2015-16.

His current research focuses on the interactions of literary and political discourses about space and place in contemporary Europe. He is co-editor of the volume, Cosmopolitanism Reconsidered: Jürgen Habermas, Germany, and the European Union (Routledge, 2016; paperback and e-book 2018). He has published on Barbara Honigmann, W. G. Sebald, Elfriede Jelinek, John Edgar Wideman, and Samuel Beckett; he was also a contributor to a German Studies Review forum on Germany  and the Euro Crisis (2013). Other scholarly interests include the Holocaust, monuments and memorialization, critical theory, and intersections between literature and other arts, especially photography and film.

Wilson is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Phi Alpha, the German national honor society. In 2000-01, he conducted research at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright Scholar. He received another Fulbright for the summer of 2012. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. in comparative literature and German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


Brian Cusato, Dean of Student Success and Director of Centre Learning Commons 


DEAN OF STUDENT SUCCESS • DIRECTOR OF CENTRE LEARNING COMMONS • PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE

Academic Affairs
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY 40422
Phone: 859.238.6552
Email: b.cusato@centre.edu INTERNET

Biography

Brian Cusato joined Centre’s faculty in 2006 as assistant professor of psychology, and became an associate professor and Centre Scholar in 2009. In 2018, Cusato was promoted to the rank of full professor and named interim vice president of academic affairs and dean of the College.  Prior to serving as interim vice president of academic affairs and dean of the College, Cusato was named associate dean of the college in 2016.

Dr. Cusato’s research interests concern the behavioral mechanisms of learning in animals. He is most interested in adaptive specializations in learning, and the integration of biological, comparative, and evolutionary approaches to the study of learned behavior. Most of his experiments investigate how learning occurs in the sexual behavior system, and how animals learn about the species typical cues they experience during naturally occurring social interactions. This is a novel approach to the study of learning—general enough to apply across species, yet specific enough to reflect the evolutionary history and genetics of particular species and individuals. The work is revealing sex differences in learned behavior and the importance of learning in ecologically relevant social situations. Cusato’s research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, and findings from his experiments have been published in numerous journals including Animal Learning and Behavior, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Behavioural Processes, The International Journal of Comparative Psychology, and Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Cusato received a B.A. in psychology from Muhlenberg College, a master’s degree from Bucknell University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.


Mary Gulley, Assistant Dean of Student Success

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ASSISTANT DEAN OF STUDENT SUCCESS • CLASSROOM ACCOMMODATIONS COORDINATOR • ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY

600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY, 40422
Phone: 859.238.5223
Email: mary.gulley@centre.edu

Ansley Bredar, Director of First-Year Academic Programming

DIRECTOR OF FIRST-YEAR ACADEMIC PROGRAMMING
Academic Affairs
Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY 40422
Phone:859.238.5341
Email ansley.bredar@centre.edU
 
 
Brooke Stone, Executive Administrative Assistant
brooke stone

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Academic Affairs
Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY 40422
Phone: 859.238.5343
Email: brooke.stone@centre.edu

 

Megan Mazurek, Senior Administrative Assistant

SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Academic Affairs
Old Centre
600 W. Walnut Street
Danville, KY 40422
Phone:859.238.5226
Email Megan.Mazurek@centre.edu