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Dr Carolyn Alsen

Director of Academic Coursework - Office of the Dean
PhD, Hebrew Bible, University of Divinity, Melbourne. M.A. Biblical Studies, Trinity Western University, Canada. Master of Linguistics and Biblical Exegesis, Trinity Western Seminary, Canada. Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education, University of Queensland. Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics, SIL, Melbourne. Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland.

Carolyn Alsen holds 20 years of experience as an educator and researcher in biblical studies, religious studies and linguistics, higher education leadership and management in various institutions in Australia, North America, and the Pacific. Carolyn has published research in biblical studies, higher education and field work in minority language Bible translation with SIL. Her pastoral and educational leadership experience extends to university residential college and Christian parish-based pastoral work, and secondary religious education teaching.

As Director of Academic Coursework, Carolyn works with an academic and professional team within the Sydney College of Divinity Office of the Dean. Carolyn seeks to advise and coach Academic Deans and academic staff in institutional learning and teaching and management of their roles in quality and higher education standards. Carolyn also conducts quality review of theological curriculum, manages continual improvement in Academic Board sub-committees and conducts research in theological education leadership, biblical studies and higher education.

Publications
Current Work

  • 2024

    Alsen, Carolyn and Albert Haddad, “HEPP-QN Responses to Academic Integrity Issues and Generative Artificial Intelligence 2016-2023,” Pages 169 - 181 in Achieving Together: HEPP-QN Selected Themes in Higher Education

    (Avondale University College Press), 2024.

  • 2024

    Alsen, Carolyn. "Seeing Biblical Worlds Through Surveillance".

    Biblical Interpretation Vol 32 (2024): 1-25. https://tinyurl.com/SurveillanceSodom

  • 2019

    Alsen, Carolyn. "Veiled Resistance: The Cognitive Dissonance of Vision in Genesis 38."

    Pages 59-82 in Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Jeremiah Cataldo. LHBOTS (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2019).

  • 2017

    Alsen, Carolyn. "Drones Over Sodom: Resisting the Fantasy of Security."

    Pages 24-44 in Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts. Edited by Keith Dyer and Anne Elvey. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017.

  • 2016

    Alsen, Carolyn. "Staring Down the Violence: Surveillance in Genesis."

    Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review. Vol. 48, No. 2 (2016) 161-177.

  • 2010

    Finamor, Carolyn. "Elements of Sentence Construction and Cohesion in Awad Bing."

    Pages 73-101 in Papers on Six Languages of Papua New Guinea. Edited by Joan Hooley. Canberra: ANU Pacific Linguistics Series, 2010.

Areas of Interest
  • Surveillance Studies and the Bible;
  • Pentateuch;
  • Genesis;
  • Biblical Semitic Linguistics;
  • Hebrew Narrative and Critical Theory;
  • Philosophy of Technology and Higher Education;
  • Higher Education Assessment and Quality
Research Strengths
  • Linguistics
  • Biblical Studies contemporary approaches (Critical Theory, Decolonising)
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Higher Education academic quality and integrity
Currently working on
  • Under Review: “Are You Shaved? A Hermeneutic of Hair Removal”

 

  • “Comparing Human Rights and Market Based Approaches to Quality Review of Courses in Divinity and Theology” – HERDSA presentation