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David M. Batt

Telephone: +1 (574) 850 7270
e-mail (1): davidmbatt@gmail.com
e-mail (2): dbatt@nd.edu
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1973-7558


1. Biographical Information

Date of Birth:11 July 1993
Place of Birth:Melbourne, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Pronouns:he/him


2. Education

2022—presentUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac
PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science
Specialisation Track: History
Thesis: TBA

2019—2020University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced)
Specialisation: History and Philosophy of Science
Thesis: The Abstract Monetary Sign and Paper Money’s Technical Production (Dwight Final Assessment Prize for History and Philosophy of Science)

2018—2018University of Melbourne
Graduate Certificate in Arts
Specialisation: History and Philosophy of Science

2015—2016University of Melbourne
Master of Science
Specialisation: Mathematics
Thesis: Soliton Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials

2012—2014University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science
With majors in: Mathematical Physics

2006—2011St Michael’s Grammar School
Victorian Certificate of Education


3. Work (paid/unpaid)

2021—2022The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Australia (UPJA)
Referee for history and philosophy of science

2017—2022University of Melbourne
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Academic tutor
(Real Analysis; Vector Calculus; Calculus 2; Linear Algebra)

2017—2022Integrated Education Center for Excellence
Academic teacher
(Mathematics and English for Primary and Secondary School)

2015 Dec.University of Melbourne
Regional Indigenous Science Experience mentor/tutor

2014—2015C.S.I.R.O.
Summer Research Scholarship in Astrophysics

2014 Jul.Australian National University
Astronomy Winter School


4. Awards
  1. I am receiving a University Presidential Fellowship for the duration of my PhD at the University of Notre Dame. The fellowship is awarded to recognise and support promising graduate students in the humanities and social sciences; it offers students full tuition and augmented stipend for up to five years.
  2. I was awarded the Dwight Final Assessment Prize for History and Philosophy of Science in 2020 for my thesis The Abstract Monetary sign and Paper Money’s Technical Production. The prize is awarded annually for the highest ranked honours/graduate thesis in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne.
5. Talks
  1. “John Locke, ‘Intrinsick Value,’ and Commodity Theories of Money.” Graduate First Year Conference. University of Notre Dame. May 10–11, 2023.
  2. “Paper Money Experiments: News from China to Western Europe (1250–1400).” HAPSAT Conference 2021: Global and Local Networks. University of Toronto. June 11–13, 2021.
6. Publications
  1. “The Salience of Currency Depreciation: Transformations in Paper Money’s Mode of Production at the Bank of England 1783–1810.” Submitted to History and Technology, (2023).
  2. “The Fear of Excess: An Intellectual History of Paper Money in the Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 11/22 (2022), 1–41. doi.org/10.13135/2280-8574/6064.
  3. “The 1783 Proposal for a Readymade Note at the Bank of England.” Financial History Review, 29/1 (2022), 72-97. doi.org/10.1017/S0968565021000123.
  4. “Depoliticisation, Technical Discourse, and Paper-Money: A Case Study in the Bank Restriction Period.” Journal of Cultural Economy, 14/2 (2021), 225–239. doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2020.1812420.

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