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Publications

President Roth has edited several scholarly books and authored five scholarly volumes:

• Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past (Columbia University Press, 2011)
• Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, with Clare Lyons and Charles Merewether (Getty Research Institute, 1997),
• The Ironist’s Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History (Columbia University Press, 1995),
• Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France (Cornell, 1988),
• Psycho-Analysis as History: Negation and Freedom in Freud (Cornell University Press, 1987, 1995)