Mark Hutchinson is Vice President of Development and Professor of History. He is an internationally-regarded intellectual historian focusing on the history of higher education, evangelicalism and globalisation, and the history of Pentecostalism. In addition to his work with the Faculty, he has been Director of the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Centre at AC. Before moving to his current position, he was successively 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), and lead strategist and Dean of Humanities and Academic Projects at The Scots College (2013-2016). 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 the editor of Volume V of 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 16 edited and authored books, and over 100 research papers and articles in print, he is recognized around the world as a leading historian of religion. He has been a core thinker and developer of the idea of a Christian university in Australia, in the service of sustainable intellectual cultures and disciplines. He is general editor of the 'guerilla scholarship' collections, the Dictionary of Australasian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements and Explorations in Italian Protestantism, and his international standing is recognized by non-resident Fellowships at Baylor University (Texas) and Liverpool Hope University (UK). His remains a core adjunct researcher with the Religion and Society Research Cluster at Western Sydney University.
Qualifications
PhD (University of New South Wales)
Dissertation Title 'Such a Contracted Sphere': Some aspects of the writing of history in NSW, 1788-1900'
1988
GradDipEd (University of New South Wales) 1982
BA (Hons) (University of New South Wales) 1981
Current Research
I am currently working on a large, 2 volume general History (the Brill Global History of Italian Protestantism) with colleagues at the University of Milan (profs. Paolo Zanini, Daniela Saresella, Marina Benedetti and Gianclaudio Civale). The enthusiasm for this project among leading scholars in Italy, and the need for it as a contribution to the larger history Protestantism, indicates its innovative and transnational nature. I am also currently the Commissioned Historian for the 200th Anniversary History of St James' Church, King Street, Sydney. Other work, on global pentecostalism of various types, on social capital theory and globalization theory, continues with colleagues such as John Maiden (Open University, UK), Andrew Atherstone (Oxford University, UK), Michael Wilkinson (Trinity Western University, Canada).
Supervision
- Claire Madden, A study of the Millennial shift in workplace values and virtues (PhD)
- Lee Burns, Social Capital Theory and the Global Megachurch (PhD).
- Duncan Corby, Hermeneutics, Experience and Paul: Pentecostal Experience in the Study of Pauline Spirit Texts. Unpacking hermeneutical themes in the teaching-interpretation moment of attendees at Hillsong Church, Sydney. (PhD)
- Melissa Brown, “How has the practice of parent partnership adapted to organizational change in the CEN Network of schools between 1980-2020” (PhD)
- Theo Rule, Christian Theatre in the Middle Ages (MPhil)
Completed
- 2019: Allan Davies, What is successful religious acculturation? A case study of the Syriac Orthodox Church in diaspora in Australia (PhD)
Research Interests
History of Pentecostal and charismatic movements; global evangelical movements; globalization and religion, social capital theory
Field of Research
Heritage, archive and museum studies, Historical Studies, Other history, heritage and archaeology, Religious studiesBook
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2021
- Atherstone, A.; Hutchinson, M. P.; Maiden, J. (2021). Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950–2000. Leiden & Boston: Brill. | External link
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2020
- Rocha, C.; Hutchinson, M. P.; Openshaw, K. (2020). Australasian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins. Leiden & Boston: Brill. | External link
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2018
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2018). The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Vol. V: The Twentieth Century: Themes in a Global Context,. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | External link
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2015
- Hutchinson, M. with Stiller, B. Stiller, K. and Johnson, T. (eds.) (2015). Evangelicals around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. [Gold Medal, Illumination Book Awards, USA; first place, WORD Awards, Canada].
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2014
- Hutchinson, M. with Handley, K. (2014). A Humane Reckoning: From Accounting to Accountability at Macquarie, 1964-2014. North Ryde: Editorial Collective.
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2013
- Hutchinson, M. (2013). Down River: A Retrospective for Janice Clare Reid, Third Vice Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney, 1988-2013. Penrith: for the University.
- Hutchinson, M. (2013). A University of the People: A history of the University of Western Sydney. Crow's Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.
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2012
- Hutchinson, M. with Wolffe, J. (2012). A Short History of Global Evangelicalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2001
- Hutchinson, M. (2001). Iron in our blood: a history of the Presbyterian Church in NSW, 1788-2001. Ferguson Publications and the Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, Sydney. | External link
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1999
- Hutchinson, M. (1999). Pellegrini: An Italian Protestant Community in Sydney, 1958-1998. . | External link
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1998
- Hutchinson, M. and Treloar G. (1998). This Gospel Shall be Preached: Essays on the Australian Contribution to World Mission. Sydney. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. and Kalu, O. (1998). A Global Faith: Essays on Evangelicalism and Globalization. Sydney. | External link
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1994
- Hutchinson, M. and Campion, E. (eds) (1994). Reviving Australia: Revival and Revivalism in Australian Christianity. North Ryde: CSAC.
- Hutchinson, M. and Campion, E. (eds) (1994). Long Patient Struggle: Essays on Women in Australian Christianity. North Ryde: CSAC.
- Hutchinson, M. and Campion, E. (1994). Re-Visioning the Australian Colonial Christianity: New Essays in the History of the Australian Christian Experience, 1788-1900. Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, North Ryde. | External link
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1992
- Hutchinson, M. and Mansfield, B. (1992). Liberality of Opportunity: A History of Macquarie University, 1967-1989. Macquarie University and Hale & Iremonger, Sydney. | External link
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1991
- Hutchinson, M. and Bell, R. (1991). Club and Community: A History of the Harbord Diggers' Club. Sydney: HDP.
Book Chapter
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2022
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2022). Seeing Globalized Fundamentalism In A. Atherstone and D. Ceri Jones, The Oxford Handbook of Christian Fundamentalism (pp. forthcoming). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2022). “No eye has seen”: The local and global in writing Australasian pneumatic Christianity In M. Wilkinson and J. Haustein, The Pentecostal World (pp. forthcoming). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
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2021
- Hutchinson, Mark P. (2021). Rendering History Obedient: The Catholic Charismatic Movement and Historical Imagination In (Eds.) Andrew Atherstone, John Maiden, and Mark P. Hutchinson, Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950-2000 (pp. 165-189). Brill. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. P., and Rocha, C. (2021). Problematics in the Study of Antipodean Pentecostalism In Carole Cusack and Christopher Hartney, Antipodes of the Soul: Religion and the Study of Religion in Australia and New Zealand (pp. forthcoming). Adelaide: ATF.
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2020
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2020). A bibliography of Christianity in the Middle East In Mitri Raheb, Meredith L. D. Riedel & Mark A. Lamport, Christianity in the Middle East: Historical Sketches and Contemporary Practices (pp. 605-632). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2020). Reframing Howard Carter: Alternative ‘Routes’ for the emergence of the Australasian Charismatic Renewal.ATE In Rocha, C.; Hutchinson, M. P.; Openshaw, K., Australasian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (pp. 25-52). Leiden & Boston: Brill. | External link
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2018
- Hutchinson, M. (2018). Dissenting Preaching in the Twentieth-Century Anglophone World In Hutchinson, M., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (pp. 170-198). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2018). From Reverse to Inverse to Omni-Nodal Dissenting Protestant Mission In Hutchinson, M., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (pp. 466-490). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2018). Glocalized and Indigenized Theologies in the Twentieth Century In , The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (pp. 285-295). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2018). The Bible in the Twentieth-Century Anglophone World In Hutchinson, M., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (pp. 91-130). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. | External link
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2017
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). 'Investigating the 'Global Turn' in American Evangelicalism' In Carter, H. and Rominger Porter, L. (eds), Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism (pp. ). . | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). "Just up the Windsor Road': Social complexity, geographies of emotion and the rise of Hillsong In Riches, T. and Wagner, T. (eds), The Hillsong Movement Examined: "You Call Me Out Upon The Waters" (pp. ). London: Palgrave Macmillan. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). " 'La Farina del Diavolo': Transnational Migration and the Politics of Religious Liberty in PostWar Italy" In Possamai, A., Turner, B. and Michel, P. (eds), Religions, Nations and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities (pp. ). London: Palgrave McMillan. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). “The Hand of God and the Judgement of Time: NSW Presbyterianism 2001-2016” In P. Cooper and D. A. Burke (eds), Burning or Bushed? The Presbyterian Church of Australia 40 Years On (pp. ). Stanhope Gardens, NSW: Eider Books. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). "Presbyterian Contributions to Theologizing in Sydney" In M. Gladwin and I. Tregenza (eds), Proceedings of the Heretics Centenary Conference (pp. ). St Mark’s Review. | External link
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2015
- Hutchinson, M. (2015). From Corner Shop to Boutique Franchise: The dilemmas of Australian Pentecostalism In Synan, V. and Yong, A. (eds.), Global renewal Christianity: Spirit-empowered movements, past, present, and future, vol 1: Asia and Oceania (pp. ). Lake Mary, Fla.: Charisma House Publishers.
Journal Article
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2019
- Hutchinson, M (2019). Solid Foundations in Shifting times: The St James’ History project so far. St James’ Connections October-November, 20-21.
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2019). The emergence of Protestant Statecraft and the question of religious liberty in Italian-American relations, in the 1940s’. Memoria e Ricerca, 2019.1 (January 2019) 45-62. | External link
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2017
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). 'The Problem with Waves: Mapping Charismatic potential in Italian Protestantism, 1890-1929. Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 39.1, . | External link
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2014
- Hutchinson, M. (2014). 'Presence in the West: Religious Contributions to the Secular Ideology of an Australian University'. , Journal of Religious History 37.3 (September), 391–409.
- Hutchinson, M. (2014). 'When the War is over: Lithgow, Western Sydney and the Search for Higher Education Options'. History of Education Review, vol. 43.1 (Jan), 1-16, .
- Hutchinson, M. (2014). 'The Forgotten Front: The Palermo Brothers and American Evangelical Expansion in Post- War Italy'. Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. 5 (1): 1-27, .
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2013
- Hutchinson, M. (2013). 'Going the other way around': Catholic contributions to the emerging Pentecostal norm in Australia'. , .
Research and Professional Grants
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2021
- 2J1P Project Grant, $125000, 2J1 Project Partners
- Community Chaplaincy Program, $250000, Mission Australia
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2019
- Conference attendance grant, $2500, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- The Scots College 125th Anniversary History Project, $15000, The Scots College, Sydney
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2018
- Macquarie Graduate School of Management, $15000, Macquarie University
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2006
- The History and Sociology of the Protestant Missions Movement from the Global South,, $50000, Cooperation with Paul Freston (Calvin College, USA) on CCCU project
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1998
- Currents in World Christianity Project,, $950000, Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia
- Currents in World Christianity Project (with Dr Brian Stanley, Cambridge University), $950000, Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia
- Holding Sydney Consultation, International Project on Evangelicalism and Globalization, $32500, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
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1996
- Preservantion of Mission Records, $3362, National Preservation Office, National Library of Australia
- Travel Grant to planning consultation of the International Project on Evangelicalism and Globalisation, $3500, Wheaton College
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1995
- Project to write the history of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, $58000, -
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1992
- Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, $100000, Sir Vincent Fairfax Family Trust
- Establishment of MCSI, $100000, Sir Vincent Fairfax Family Trust
- Research Grant, $1300, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Wheaton, Ill.)
- Research Grant (with Dr S Piggin and M Prentis), $20000, Canadian-Australian Institutional Research Award Scheme (CABIRA)
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1986
- Grant, $4500, Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (Wheaton, Ill.)
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1977
- Scholarship, NSW Dept of Education
Presentations
Academic Conference
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2021
- Edith Blumhofer: World Christian (2021), Edith Blumhofer Memorial Session, American Society of Church History Winter Conference, Seattle, WA, USA., 06 Feb 2021
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2019
- Evangelical-Pentecostal faith across the 'Brown Atlantic' : Conversion cycles and Cyclical Italian Labour Migration. (2019), Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity and Migration, Sydney, Australia, 02 Aug 2019
- ‘Windows on the World: Sources for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Sydney, Australia’ (2019), "Global Catholicism and the charismatic movement”., University of Venezia Ca’ Foscari, 13 Jun 2019
- The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (2019), American Society for Church History Winter Conference, Chicago, IL, 01 Jan 2019
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2018
- The Forgetting of Pentecostal Pasts: Wesleyans, Pentecostals and the nature of History (2018), Manchester Wesley Research Centre, Manchester UK, 23 Dec 2018
- Making Culture Hum: The decline of preaching as a public form through the 20th century (2018), Institute for Historical Research, University of London, London, UK, 28 Nov 2018
- The Gospel prolonging and declaring itself: Rhetoric and the decline of Preaching as a public act in the 20th Century (2018), Institute of Historical Research, Seminar on Religious History, School of Advanced Study, University of London,, 28 Nov 2018
- Pleasing thoughts and rational indulgences: Italian Protestants through British Evangelical Historiography, 1800-1850 (2018), Dipartimento della Storia Contemporanea, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 13 Nov 2018
- Reframing Howard Carter: Alternative ‘Routes’ for the emergence of the Australasian Charismatic Renewal. (2018), Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Oceania Conference, Alphacrucis College and Western Sydney University, 17 Aug 2018
- The Ghosts of Old Beliefs: Social Capital Theory and Evangelical History (2018), Evangelical History Association of Australia Annual Conference, Australia, 28 Jul 2018
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2017
- The emergence of Protestant Statecraft and the question of religious liberty in Italian-American relations, in the 1940s (2017), Cantieri di Storia SISSCO, Università degli Studi di Padova, 13 Sep 2017
- Praying a global liturgy: Italian diaspora and the debate over Pentecostal origins (2017), Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, 12 Sep 2017
- 'Developing Post-War Evangelical 'Statecraft': Clyde W. Taylor and the Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies, 1942-1955' (2017), Trajectories: Boundaries and Diversity in Evangelicalism Symposium, Australian College of Theology, Australia, 05 Sep 2017
- 'Framing Australasia's Charismatic Past: Australian charismatic movements as a space of flows' (2017), RSRC Conference on Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 11 Aug 2017
- The emergence of Protestant Statecraft and the question of religious liberty in Italian-American relations, in the 1940s (2017), Heretics Club, St Andrews College, University of Sydney, 10 Aug 2017
- On Measurements and Writing Unpopular Scholarship (2017), Simeon Network “Write” Conference, 03 Jul 2017
- 'What’s the Story? Christian Higher Education in Australia: Dreaming Spires or Voyages of the Damned?' (2017), Simeon Network Keynote addresses, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia, 03 Jul 2017
- Australasian Charismatic Movements and the “New Reformation of the 20th Century?” (2017), Session on “New Global Reformations and the Old Christendoms”, American Society for Church History Winter Meeting, USA, 05 Jan 2017
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2016
- ‘The Problem with Waves: Mapping Charismatic potential in Italian Protestantism, 1890-1929.’ (2016), The Charismatic Movement in Historical Perspective, 1950-2000, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 13 Sep 2016
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2014
- ‘La farina del Diavolo: Transnational migration and the politics of religious liberty in post-War Italy’ (2014), Paper read at the “Religion, Nation(alism) and Transnationalism Symposium”, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 09 Jul 2014
Other presentation
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2014
- ‘Degrees of flexibility: How South-West Sydney got the fourth university a decade late and in places unexpected’ (2014), Invitational Address to University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus, and Community, Sydney, Australia, 09 Apr 2014
Scholarship Publications
Book Chapter
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2021
- Hutchinson, Mark P; Atherstone, Andrew; Maiden, John (2021). Forthcoming: Introduction, The Evidence of Things Unseen: The Transatlantic Charismatic Movement in the Postwar Period In Atherstone, Andrew; Hutchinson, Mark; Maiden. John, Transatlantic Charismatic Renewal, c.1950–2000 (pp. 1-18). Leiden: Brill. | External link
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2020
- Hutchinson, M. P., Rocha, C., and Openshaw, K. (2020). Introduction: Australian Charismatic Movements as a Space of Flows In Rocha, C.; Hutchinson, M. P.; Openshaw, K., Australasian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins (pp. 1-24). Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishing.
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2018
- Hutchinson, M. with Gunther Brown, C. (2018). Introduction: Dissenting Traditions in Globalized Settings In Hutchinson, M., The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume V: The Twentieth Century: Themes and Variations in a Global Context (pp. 1-25). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. | External link
Journal Article
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2021
- Hutchinson, M. (2021). Biblical Literacy in Christian Schools. Inquiry, 1.
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2017
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). Australasian Charismatic Movements and the “New Reformation of the 20th Century. Australasian Pentecostal Studies, 19. | External link
Book Review
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2017
- Hutchinson, M. (2017). New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa. Social Forces, 95/4 1789-1790. | External link
Other Publication
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2020
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2020). Various entries (Vernon, Leroy Monroe (1838-1896); Lombardi, Giacomo; Clot, Alberto (1876-1916); Petrelli, Giuseppe; Toppi, Francesco; Francescon, Luigi; Penzotti, Francesco etcOnline. | External link
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2020). Charles Lindley Perry (1842-1924), and other entriesOnline. | External link
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2018
- Hutchinson, M. P.(2018). A bibliography of Christianity in the Global South. | External link
- CRS413 Curriculum Studies – History: Part A
- HIS102 Church History Foundations
- HIS240 Australian Indigenous History
- HIS290 Historical Theory and Method
- HIS302 Early and Medieval Christian History
- HIS402 Church History Foundations
- HIS510 Renewal Movements in Christianity
- HUM101 The West and the Making of the Globalised World
- HUM240 Australia in the Asia-Pacific
- RES500 Independent Guided Research
- RES601 Research Methods
Completed Supervision
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2018
- Openshaw, K., The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Australia (Doctoral Thesis), 2018
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