McConnell Center Personnel
Faculty and Staff
Dr. Gary Gregg, Director
Sherry Allen, Unit Business Manager
Wanda Taylor, Program Assistant Senior
Malana Salyer, Civics Education Coordinator
position temporarily vacant, Administrative Assistant
Laura Chai Hunzinger, Civics Education Program Assistant
Fellows
Dr. Shiping Hua
Dr. John Kleber
Dr. Thomas Mackey
†Dr. Paul Weber
Graduate Assistants
Neil Salyer, Research Assistant to the Director
Director of the McConnell Center
Gary Gregg (ggregg@louisville.edu)
Gary Gregg holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville and is director of the McConnell Center. He is the author or editor of six books including The Presidential Republic, Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition and the forthcoming Securing Democracy - Why We Have an Electoral College. He is an award winning teacher and has been the national director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He has a bachelor's degree from Davis and Elkins College and a master's degree and doctorate from Miami University (Ohio).
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Unit Business Manager
Ms. Sherry Allen (s.allen@louisville.edu)
Ms. Allen has worked with the Center since its inception in 1991. She is responsible for the Center’s financial affairs, assists and oversees majors events, serves as student advisor to the scholars, and liaison to alumni.
Program Assistant Senior
Wanda Taylor
(wjadam01@louisville.edu)
As program assistant senior, Wanda Taylor is a assistant to the Director, the public relations liason for the Center, and provides administrative support services as needed. She will be happy to assist you on updates about the Center's events and provide information on the scholarship program. Wanda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and Masters in Higher Education Administration from U of L and currently working on completing her dissertation for Ph.D. candidacy in the same.
Administrative Assistant
As administrative assistant, this person will be an assistant to the unit business manager and the Director, providing administrative support services. He or she will be happy to greet and be of service to all visitors to the Center.
Civics Education Coordinator
Malana S. Salyer
(malana.salyer@louisville.edu)
Malana Salyer serves as the Civics Education Coordinator for the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. Currently pursuing a master’s degree in History from the University of Louisville, Malana received her bachelor’s degree in political science and communication from the U of L in 2004. For more information on the Civics Education Program, please click here.
Civics Education Program Assistant
Laura C.Hunzinger (llchai01@gwise.louisville.edu )
Laura is an assistant who does various duties for the Center. She primarily assists with civics education activities for the Civics Education Coordinator. Laura received master's degree in Public Administration May 2008.
Senior Fellow
Dr. Shiping Hua (s0hua002@louisville.edu)
Shiping Hua is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville. His single-authored books are: Scientism and Humanism: Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978-1989) (The State University of New York Press, 1995) and Chinese Utopianism: A Comparative Study of Reformist Thought in Japan, Russia and China (1898-2000) (under book contract with Wilson Center Press, co-publication with Stanford University Press). He has edited/coedited five other books in English. His articles and presentations appear in popular media, such as Wilson Quarterly, The New York Times, and The Voice of America. Dr. Hua is the general editor of a book series with University Press of Kentucky: “Asia in the New Millennium.”
Senior Fellow
Dr. John Kleber (jekleb01@gwise.louisville.edu)
John Edward Kleber was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated summa cum laude from Bellarmine University (1963) and received two graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky (MA 1965 and Ph.D. 1969). His major was history and minor philosophy. He has done post-graduate study at the University of California, Irvine.
In 1968 he was hired as an assistant professor of history at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. Twenty-eight years later he retired in May 1996 as professor emeritus. In 1971 he was promoted to associate professor and to full professor in 1976. He was director of the Academic Honors Program (1973-1988) and interim dean of the Caudill College of Humanities (1993-1995). Kleber received both the Outstanding Teacher (1982) and Distinguished Researcher (1993) Awards from Morehead State. He was given the Outstanding Service Medal by the United States Army (1971), the Governor's Outstanding Kentuckian Award (1992), and the Catholic Alumni Award by the Archdiocese of Louisville (2002).
He is the editor of six books, including The Kentucky Encyclopedia (University of Kentucky Press 2001), A Home for Children: A History of Brooklawn (Montage Publishing, 2001), and Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky: An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth (University Press of Kentucky 2003).
Senior Fellow
Dr. Thomas Mackey (tcmack01@gwise.louisville.edu)
Dr. Thomas Mackey is a Professor of History at the University of Louisville and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Brandeis School of Law. His field of research is the United States Legal and Constitutional History, and he covers courses from the 1850s through the 1920s. In addition to advising History majors, minors, and graduate students, Dr. Mackey also serves as one of the college's pre-law advisors, on the Truman national scholarship committee, and as a Senior Fellow of the McConnell Center.
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