Position: Visitor
School and/or Centres: School of History
Position: Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: School of History
Email: david.roth@anu.edu.au
Qualification: BSc Chemistry (University of Western Australia) BSc(Hons) Chemistry (University of Tasmania) BA Philosophy (Australian National University) MA(Hons) History (Australian National University)<br />
David T. Roth was born in Vienna, Austria and migrated to Australia as a young child. Prior to resuming his academic studies in history in 2012, he retired from the IT industry after a 34 year career. David graduated PhD in July 2020. His thesis topic was ‘Life, Death and Deliverance at Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, 1877 to 1923’. The main focus of his thesis was on the mortality of mental patients. David has contributed articles to People Australia on the biographies of patients. He was appointed Campus Visitor in July 2020. His current project concerns the effects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic on mental patients in NSW.
Mental Health Care; Pharmaceutical HIstory; Aged Care; Medical HIstory.
David is researching the effects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic on mental patients in NSW. Some of the questions I am examining are the significant inter- and intra-state variations between asylums in mortality and infection rates, sequelae of mental and physical illnesses, gender and age differences in case fatality rates, and preventative and treatment measures.
Roth, David T., "Chemical Restraint at Callan Park Hospital for the Insane in Sydney, New South Wales, 1877 to 1920." Health and History 20, no. 1 (2018): 1-27
Roth, David T., "Moral messages in Dutch realist art of the seventeenth-century Golden Age." ANU Historical Journal II 2 (2020): 23.
Roth, David. "Odyssey of the unknown Anzac [Book Review]." Australian Journal of Biography and History 2 (2019): 163.
(Forthcoming) Roth, David T., "Review of Judith Hoare, The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes", Australian Journal of Biography and History 2 (2021)
Roth, David T., "Deaths in the Asylum. The Brief Lives of Asylum Patients in Sydney 1877 to 1923. A Microhistorical Approach", Book Chapter in Fear of Theory.
University of Western Australia - Lady James Prize for Chemistry (1966)
Australian National University - Chancellor’s Letter of Commendation for Outstanding Academic Performance (2014)
Runner-up, Ben Hanneman Prize 2017
Finalist, Margaret Medcalf Award 2015
Chancellor's Letter of Commendation ANU 2015
Australian Historical Association
Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine