Rate My Professor Jenny Gregory

Gregory's research specializations encompass urban history, planning history, heritage, public housing in Australia, water sensitive cities, lost places and the limits of heritage, and Western Australian history. Notable publications include Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia (2022), Seeking Wisdom: A Centenary History of The University of Western Australia (editor, 2013), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia (editor-in-chief, 2009), City of Light: A History of Perth Since the Fifties (2003), Claremont: A History (1999, with Geoffrey Bolton), Building a Tradition: A History of Scotch College, Perth 1897-1996 (1996), On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II (editor, 1996), and Western Australia Between the Wars, 1919-1939 (1990). She has profoundly influenced heritage and history fields through leadership as Chair and President of the National Trust of Western Australia (1998-2010), council member (1993-2022), Deputy Director of the Australian Council of National Trusts (2007-2010), inaugural President of the History Council of Western Australia (2001-2006 and 2016-2020), and Director of the WA History Foundation (1999-2022). Awards include Member of the Order of Australia (2010), Centenary Medal (2001), Champion Award by the National Year of the Built Environment (2004), Stirling Award (2011), Margaret Medcalf Award (2021), Chancellor's Medal (2022), and WA History Foundation award for best first book (1997).