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Professor Tony Dingle is Associate Dean, Education, in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and was appointed to this position at the beginning of 2005. He was formerly Head, Department of Economics at Monash University and also taught economic history. He has written or edited 10 books including Settling, Vol 2 of the three volume 150th anniversary history of Victoria, (1984); Vital connections: Melbourne and its Board of Works, 1891-1991, (1991) (with Carolyn Rasmussen); as well as The Cream Brick Frontier: Histories Of Australian Suburbia, (1995) (with Graeme Davison and Seamus O'Hanlon). He was Associate Editor on the recently published Encyclopaedia of Melbourne (2005).
In 2005 he received an ARC Discovery Grant, jointly with the Faculty of Arts, for $211,000 for research into the de-industrialisation and reinvention of inner Melbourne, 1970 - 2000.
Research
Professor Dingle's research interests include the general areas of urban, environmental and economic history, especially of Australia. His current research projects include consumerism and domesticity in 20th Century Australia, a history of miners' cottages, Melbourne and the Yarra River, the Encyclopedia of Melbourne, a history of the olive industry in Australia, and de-industrialisation and re-development of Melbourne.
His most recent monograph was: Yan Yean: A History of Melbourne's early water supply system (Public Record Office of Victoria, Melbourne, 2003).
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