[3] Utilizing skills he acquired while completing his bachelor’s degree in architecture, Roth drafted dozens of plans, sections, and elevations for his many publications, which include Choice Reviews outstanding titles.

His publications are esteemed for their unique narrative voice, and also for their assertion that style and context remain important to the scholarly discipline of architectural history.

[5] His doctoral research focused primarily on American architecture from 1865 to 1940, especially the work of architects Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White.

[6] While at Yale, Roth studied under the notable art historians Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Kerry Downes, Terukazu Akiyama, and Heinrich Klotz.

[13] Roth is only the second person working in the Pacific Northwest, following after former University of Oregon architectural historian, Marian Card Donnelly, to have been named an SAH Fellow.