School of Environmental Sciences
Assoc Prof Bruce Pennay 
OAM
BA MA Syd, MA Macq, PhD Deakin
Position Adjunct Associate Professor
Campus Thurgoona Campus
Office Room 107, East Wing, SES Building
Phone (02) 6051 9857
Fax (02) 6051 9897
EMAIL BRUCE PENNAY 
Bruce Pennay has been an adjunct Associate Professor since he retired in 1999.
His more recent work includes a series of interpretation pamphlets about the Bonegilla Reception and Training Centre – Food at Bonegilla, The Army at Bonegilla, Calwell’s Beautiful Balts, Never Enough Dutch, So Much Sky, The Young at Bonegilla, Receiving Europe’s Displaced. He is currently working on Drysdale’s War-time Albury and has ambitions to produce a history of Albury.
In 2009 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the General Division with the citation ‘For service to the community of the Albury-Wodonga area, particularly through the establishment of the Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre Heritage Park’. He was honoured with a Fellowship of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. The History Council of New South Wales awarded him the Annual History Citation ‘in recognition of his contribution as a historian and practising heritage consultant, in particular his service to heritage and community history in regional New South Wales and Victoria’.
The citation reviews his career
Interests
- Heritage Studies