Chris McGillion
BA (hons), MA (hons) USyd
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PositionSenior Lecturer, Journalism
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CampusBathurst
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LocationBuilding N5
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Phone/Fax(02) 6338 4047
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Profile
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).
Teaching
Chris teaches print journalism subjects at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels. He is currently also supervising research students in both the MA(Hons) and Professional Doctorate degree program.
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 a book on Australian Catholic parish priests.
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.