Chris McGillion
Lecturer
Course Coordinator Journalism
MA (Hons), USyd
Chris McGillion
Bio
Chris McGillion is the Course Coordinator for undergraduate journalism and a Senior Lecturer in Print Journalism. He is a former senior journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and remains a religious affairs commentator for that paper.
Chris has published in a variety of newspapers and magazines in Australia and overseas including The Age, Eureka Street , Inside Sport, The Miami Herald, The National Catholic Reporter (US), The Christian Science Monitor (US), and The Tablet (UK)
Chris is currently involved in initiatives to address challenges posed to the future of regional journalism, continues his professional interest in religious affairs journalism, and is working on a major study of US policy toward the promotion of democracy in Chile .
Chris holds a Master of Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney . He is a former Opinion Page Editor, Editorial Page Editor and Religious Affairs Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and was that paper’s religious affairs columnist 1998-2004. He is also a former Sydney correspondent for The Tablet ( UK ). Chris is a Senior Research Fellow with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington DC . He is acknowledged by the ARC acknowledged as "an expert of international standing in US foreign policy" and served as an ARC Discovery Grant assessor in 2005.
Research
Currently undertaking an Australian Research Council Discovery grant-funded study of US policy toward democracy promotion in Chile (1973-1989). On going interests are: The challenges facing regional journalism, US foreign policy issues and religious affairs journalism.
Recent publications and Conference papers
Aacademic publications
Cuba , the United States and the Post-Cold War World, University Press of Florida, Gainesville , 2005 (co-editor and contributor)
The Chosen Ones: The politics of salvation in the Anglican Church, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, (author)
A Long Way From Rome : Why the Australian Catholic Church is in crisis, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2003 (editor and contributor)
Unfinished Business: Cuba and America After the Cold War, 1989-2001, Cambridge University Press, New York , 2002 (co-author).
Scholarly Publications
McGillion, C., & Morley, M., (2006) Soldiering On: The Reagan Administration and Redemocratisation in Chile , 1983-1986. Bulletin of Latin American Research. forthcoming
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 : 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., (2000). Signs of the times down under. The Way (a journal of Heythrop College ).
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.
