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My opinions are my own and do not purport to represent any views of the Australian National University.

Interests: Medical history, history of mental health care, history of pharmaceuticals, Nazi Germany, influenza pandemic 1918-1919

BSc Chemistry (UWA)
BSc(Hons) Chemistry (UTas)
BA Philosophy (ANU)
MA History (ANU)
PhD History (ANU)
Chancellor's Letter of Commendation for Academic Achievement 2014

35 Years experience in IT industry
Various units in economics (ANU)

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
  • 2020–2022
    Campus Visitor, Australian National University
  • 2016–2020
    PhD Candidate, Australian National University

Education

  • 2020 
    Australian National University, PhD
  • 2015 
    Australian National University, MA (Honours)

Publications

  • 2021
    Review of Judith Hoare, The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes", Australian Journal of Biography and History
  • 2021
    Brief Lives: A Microhistorical Approach", Chapter 9 In Hans Renders and David Veltman, eds., Fear of Theory. Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021),
  • 2020
    Roth, David T (2020). "Moral messages in Dutch realist art of the seventeenth-century Golden Age.", ANU Historical Journal II
  • 2019
    Odyssey of the unknown Anzac [Book Review].", Australian Journal of Biography and History 2
  • 2018
    Roth, D. T. (2018). Chemical Restraint at Callan Park Hospital for the Insane in Sydney, New South Wales, 1877 to 1920. , Health and History

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Historical Association
  • Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine