Staff

Jenny Gregory is Editor in Chief, with overall responsibility for the Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australian. She is Head of the School of Humanities at UWA. She has taught Australian and Western Australian history for many years and is the author of a number of books on Western Australian history. Her latest is City of Light: a history of Perth since the fifties (2003). She is president of the National Trust (WA). She is a fifth generation Australian who has lived in WA since 1965. Her ancestry is Irish, Scottish and English.

Jan Gothard is General Editor of the Encyclopedia. She is a senior lecturer in History at Murdoch University, and is a former director of the Centre for WA History. Her publications include works on Western Australia's relations with Asia, feminist history, the White Australia policy, and in the oral history and the disability field. Her most recent monograph, Blue China: Single female migration to colonial Australia (2000) won the WA Premier's Award for Non-fiction in 2001. Originally from Tasmania, Jan has lived and worked around Australia, in Japan, the UK and the USA, and has been in WA since 1986. Her background is Australian, Italian and British.

Virginia Rowland
Research Associate

Virginia Rowland was the Research Associate for the Encyclopedia responsible for coordinating the commissioning and writing of entries and liaising with authors. She also wrote several entries. She has a BA in History (UWA) and librarianship qualifications with a work history in librarianship, publishing and research. She is a sixth generation Western Australian and a descendant of the Harper and Drummond families.

Hannah McGlade and Narelle Thorne have both worked as Indigenous Research Associates for the Encyclopedia. They were responsible for coordinating the commissioning and writing of entries on Western Australia's rich Aboriginal history and liaising with contributors. Both women wrote also wrote several entries for the Encyclopedia. Narelle was seconded to this project as part of Department of Indigenous Affairs' (DIA) support for the Encyclopedia.

Practicum Students The project has been ably assisted with the help of enthusiastic and dedicated UWA Practicum Students. A grateful thankyou is extended to past and present students: Bianca Piestrzeniewicz, Suzanne Robson, Jane Leong, Shreemen Prabhakaran, Lauren Rogers, Anna Kesson and Keryn Clark.

A special thankyou to Alan Dodds who has been so helpful in developing and customising the HEWA database.