Jenny Gregory
Jennifer Anne Gregory (born 1946) is an Australian academic and historian. Her research and writing focuses on the history of Western Australia. she is professor emerita at the University of Western Australia.Gregory was born Jennifer Anne Gleeson in Melbourne, Victoria in 1946. Her father had been a World War II fighter pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force. He met her mother, a nursing sister, when recuperating from a crash landing. The family moved to Sydney in 1952, where she attended Ascham School. On finishing school she began studies at the National Art School but, following the family's move to Perth in 1965, she enrolled in Perth Technical College. In 1966 she joined the public service and was encouraged to enrol in a tertiary degree. Marriage to Ross Gregory in 1969 and the birth of two children delayed the completion of her bachelor's degree. She graduated from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1982 as Bachelor of Arts and with a Ph.D (''Manufacture of Middle Class Suburbia)'' in 1989. From 2009 to 2015 she was head of school (humanities) at UWA. Provided by Wikipedia
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