Chris McGillion
Lecturer
Course Coordinator Journalism
MA (Hons), USyd
Chris McGillion
Bio
Chris McGillion is the Course Coordinator for the undergraduate journalism degree and a Senior Lecturer in Print Journalism. He holds a Master of Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney and is a former Opinion Page Editor, Editorial Page Editor and Religious Affairs Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He was that paper’s religious affairs columnist from 1998 until 2004, is a former Sydney correspondent for The Tablet (UK), and has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines including, in Australia, the Age, Eureka Street, Inside Sport and, in the US, the Miami Herald , Boston Globe, National Catholic Reporter , Christian Science Monitor, and Washington Report. He is a senior research fellow with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Washington DC).
Research
Chris is currently completing a major study on US policy toward the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1990) which has been partly funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant.
He is also co-authoring the first comprehensive study of Australian Catholic parish priests.
Scholarly publications
McGillion, C., & Morley, M., (2006) “Soldiering On: The Reagan Administration and Redemocratisation in Chile, 1983-1986,” Bulletin of Latin American Research (UK: Vol 25, No 1).
McGillion, C., & Morley, M., (2005) (eds.). Cuba, the United States and the Post-Cold War World, Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
McGillion, C., (2005). The Chosen Ones: The politics of salvation in the Anglican Church. Sydney, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
McGillion C., (2003) (ed.). A Long Way From Rome: Why the Australian Catholic Church is in crisis, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
McGillion, C., & Morley, M., (2002) (Eds.). Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001, New York : Cambridge University Press.
McGillion, C., & Morley, M., (1999) “Disobedient” generals and the politics of redemocratisation: The Clinton administration and Haiti ”, in Demestrios James Caraley (ed.), The New American Interventionism, New York : Columbia University Press.
