The University of Western Australia

W/Prof Jenny Gregory

Head of School
School of Humanities

Contact details

Address

School of Humanities
The University of Western Australia (M204)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2134

Fax

6488 1157

Email

jenny.gregory@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 2.20, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA PhD W.Aust.

Biography

Jenny Gregory AM FRHS MPHA MICOMOS is Professor of History, Head of the School of Humanities and Acting Head of the School of Music at The University of Western Australia.

In 2010 she was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to history and the community, previously she was awarded a Champion Award by the National Year of the Built Environment (2004) and a Centenary Medal (2001) for her service to the community as President of the National Trust (WA) (1998-2007). She was Chair of the National Trust (WA) and Deputy Director of the Australian Council of National Trusts (2007-2010). She was inaugural President of the History Council of WA (2001-06).

Key research

Urban history, planning history and heritage

Publications

BOOKS

Jenny Gregory (editor-in-chief) & Jan Gothard (General Editor) Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, Crawley, 2009, pp.i-xxix, 1-1015

Jenny Gregory, City of Light: a History of Perth since the 1950s, City of Perth, Perth, 2003, pp.i–xv, 1–403

Geoffrey Bolton and Jenny Gregory, Claremont: a history, UWA Press, Nedlands 1999, pp.i-xi, 1-244

Jenny Gregory, Robyn Taylor, Julia Ball, Mike Wheatley, Karen Schiller, Roger Dickinson, Traces of the Past: The National Trust Register of the Built Environment of Western Australia, CD-ROM, Centre for WA History in association with DUIT, 1997

Jenny Gregory (ed), On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1996, pp.i-xiv, 1-364

Jenny Gregory, Building a Tradition: a history of Scotch College 1897-1996, UWA Press, Nedlands, 1996, pp.i-xvi, 1-578 (incl.appendices)

EDITED JOURNALS:

David Gordon and Jenny Gregory (eds), Town Planning Review (A* rank), special issue, forthcoming 2011

Jenny Gregory (ed), Historical Traces: Studies in Western Australian History, 17, 1997, pp.i-v, 1-96

Jenny Gregory (ed), Western Australia between the Wars 1919-1939: Studies in Western Australian History, 11, 1990, pp.i-v, 1-14

RECENT REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Jenny Gregory, ‘Remembering Mounts Bay: The Narrows Scheme and the Internationalisation of Perth Planning,’ A.Gaynor & Jane Davis (ed.), Environmental Exchanges: Studies in Western Australian History (C ranked), 27, 2011 (forthcoming)

Jenny Gregory, ‘Portable housing in early colonial Western Australia’, Early Days: Journal of the Royal Wester Australian Historical Society (unranked), Vol.13, Pt.3, 2009, pp.289-308

Jenny Gregory, ‘Stand Up for the Burrup: Saving the Largest Aboriginal Rock Art Precinct in Australia’, Public History Review (B ranked), Vol.16, 2009, pp.92-116 (http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/phrj)

Jenny Gregory, ‘Northbridge and Carlton: ethnoscapes of consumption?’, Northbridge Studies (unranked), 1, 2009, pp.35-56

Jenny Gregory, ‘Development Pressures and Heritage in the Perth CBD 1960–90’, Australian Economic History Review (A ranked), Vol.24, No.1, March 2009, pp.34-51

Jenny Gregory, ‘Obliterating history? the transformation of inner city industrial suburbs’, Australian Historical Studies (A ranked), 39, 1, March 2008, pp.91-106

Jenny Gregory, ‘Reconsidering relocated buildings: ICOMOS, authenticity and mass relocation’, International Journal of Heritage Studies (A ranked), 14, 2, March 2008, pp.112-130

Jenny Gregory, ‘Don’t Know Much about History: Australian History in Schools Today’, New Critic, 6, October 2007, (http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/the_new_critic)

Jenny Gregory, ‘At the Australian History Summit’, History Australia, 4, 1, June 2007, pp.10.1-10.5

Jenny Gregory, ‘Great Survivors: Scholarly Publishing in Australia Today’, Journal of Australian Publishing, October 2005, pp.97–102

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS

Jenny Gregory and Lisa MacKinney, ‘Electrifying the City’, in Lenore Layman (ed.), Powering Perth: a history of the East Perth Power Station, Black Swan Press, Bentley, forthcoming 2011 (in press)

Jenny Gregory, ‘Mobile Lives’, in Alan Mayne (ed.), Outside Country, Kent Town, SA, Wakefield Press, forthcoming 2011 (in press)

Jenny Gregory, ‘Introduction’, in Jenny Gregory and Jan Gothard (eds) Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, Crawley, 2009, vii-xi

Jenny Gregory, ‘‘Let our watchword be “order” and our beacon “beauty”’: Achieving town planning legislation in Western Australia’, in Robert Freestone (ed.), Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform: Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations, Sydney University Press, 2009, pp.174-201

Jenny Gregory, ‘Visions of the City: Town planning and community activism in post-war Perth', in Robert Freestone (ed.), Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform: Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations, Sydney University Press, 2009, pp.234-259

Jenny Gregory, ‘Journeying across colonial landscapes: portable housing in nineteenth century Australia’, in Alan Mayne (ed), Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, 2008

Jenny Gregory, ‘Perth’, in Peter Beilharz and Trevor Hogan (eds), Introducing Sociology: Place, Time and Division, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2006, pp.63-8

Jenny Gregory, ‘Getting into Publishing’, in Richard Smart (ed), Introduction to Book Publishing, Australian Publishing Association, Sydney, 2005,

Jenny Gregory, Introduction, Criena Fitzgerald, A Press in Isolation: a history of UWA Press, UWA Press, Crawley, 2005, pp. 1-8

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Head, School of Humanities
Acting Head, School of Music

Future research

Energy and Resource Capitals
Gordon Stephenson, international modernist planner
Lost Places
WA Places

Funding received

2010 CI Western Australian Places – $17,699 (UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award)
2006-09 CI Town Planning Association – $164,178 (ARC DG)
2005-09 CI Land of the Black Stump – $331,665 (ARC DG)
2005-09 CI East Perth Power Station – $172,320 (ARC Linkage Grant)
2003-07 CI Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia – $957,284 (ARC LInkage, WA Regional Investment Scheme, Constitutional Centre of WA, Lotterywest)

Industrial relevance

Impact of mineral and resource booms on the city
Planning history of the city

Languages

English

Memberships

Fellow, Royal Historical Society, London
Member, Australian Historical Association
Member, Social History Society
Member, International Planning History Society
Member, Professional Historians Association
Member, ICOMOS
Member, National Trust of Australia (WA)
Member, Oral History Association

Honours and awards

2010 Member of the Order of Australia (AM) — appointed for service to the community as an historian and academic and through the promotion and preservation of local and regional history in Western Australia.

2004 Champion Award, National Year of Built Environment

2001 Centenary Medal — awarded for service to the community as President, National Trust of Australia (WA)

All her books have been shortlisted for national and regional awards. In 1997 she won the WA History Foundation Award for the best first book in the field of Western Australian History for Building a Tradition: a History of Scotch College, 1897-1996

Teaching Awards:
2009, 2010 nominated for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching Award
1993 UWA Excellence in Teaching Award

Previous positions

Chair, Discipline of History (2008)
Chair, Discipline of Philosophy (2007)
Director, UWA Press (1998-2006)
Director, Centre for WA History (1989-1998)
Lecturer, Department of History

Teaching

Honours and postgraduate supervision
Previously taught urban and suburban history, WA history, and heritage

Current external positions

Director, WA History Foundation
Councillor, National Trust of Australia (WA)

Current projects

She is editing a centenary history of UWA, with Dr Jean Chetkovich. Other current projects include an international study on the work of British town planner Gordon Stephenson; the impact of energy and resource industries on Perth, as part of an international team researching the history of ‘Energy Capitals’; the National Curriculum for History; and lost heritage places.

Research profile

Research profile and publications