Professor Mark Hutchinson BA Hons, Grad Dip Ed, PhD
Dean and Professor

Mark is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. He is an internationally-regarded intellectual historian focusing on the history of higher education, evangelicalism and globalisation, and the history of Pentecostalism. Before rejoining Alphacrucis in 2017, Mark was lead strategist and Dean of Humanities and Academic Projects at The Scots College (2013-2016). In addition to his work with the Faculty, he is Director of the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Centre at AC. Previously, he Mark was founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity (Macquarie University, 1991-1998), University Historian at Macquarie University (1991-1992) and the University of Western Sydney (2011-2012), Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Christian Studies Institute (1999); Dean of Graduate Studies at Alphacrucis College (2000-2010).  Internationally, he has been associate director of the Currents in World Christianity project (University of Cambridge), participated in a number of projects relating to global evangelicalism with an international network of leading scholars, and currently on the editorial team for the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (5 vols.) He continues to work on long running projects expanding knowledge about the history of Italian and Australian Pentecostalisms, and on research into teaching and learning in the humanities. With 15 edited and authored books, and over 100 research papers and articles in print, he is one of Australia’s leading historians of religion. Apart from the day-to-day task of helping foster the emergence of a much-needed Australian Christian university, a particular focus is the fostering of a quality, historically-rich and publicly effective Christian thought-life in Australia, something he brings to bear in his writing, speaking, teaching, PhD supervision and school strategy. 
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