A trawloolway man from northern trouwerner (Tasmania), Dr Deverell is the author of Contemplating Country (Wipf & Stock, 2023), Gondwana Theology (corrected edition ATF Press, 2024) and The Bonds of Freedom (Paternoster, 2008). He is a graduate of the University of Tasmania, the Melbourne College of Divinity, and Monash University (where he completed doctoral studies in 2004).

Garry has been a Sanderson Fellow and lecturer in liturgy and preaching at Pilgrim College as well as a Turner Fellow at Trinity College Theological School, both within the University of Divinity. He served as the Academic Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at UD from its inception to its disestablishment in 2024. From January 2027, Garry will be the Program Director, Indigenous Theological Studies, at St Francis College.

Garry has made a substantial contribution to sacramental studies, especially insofar as sacraments intersect with theories concerning the formation of human selves in community. His more recent research has turned towards theologising the experience of Indigenous peoples within and beyond the colonial church.

Garry is a priest of the Anglican Church and canon emeritus of St Paul’s Cathedral in Naarm/Melbourne. He is an elected member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council and is a current appointee to the Doctrine Commission of the Anglican Church of Australia. He participates in the leadership of Six Rivers Aboriginal Corporation and the Tasmanian Regional Aboriginal Communities Alliance.

University Appointments

Program Director - Indigenous Theological Studies (St Francis College)

External Affiliations

• Australian Academy of Liturgy (Member)
• The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC) (Member)
• National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council (Member)