Dr David Waldron is an Associate Professor of History and Anthropology at Federation University, Ballarat, Australia, with a research focus on folklore and community identity.
He is the author of Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival (Carolina Academic Press, 2008), Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay: a Case Study in Local Folklore (Arkana, 2010), Snarls from the Tea-Tree: Victoria’s Big Cat Folklore (Australian Scholarly Publications, 2013) and Goldfields and the Gothic (Australian Scholarly Publications, 2016)
David Waldron's passion is for story telling and folklore with an eye for the intersection of popular culture, community heritage and folklore intersect in the creation of urban legends and heritage. He also has a passion for the gothic, hidden and esoteric aspects of history. Those areas of heritage which fit outside our comfort zones and national myths.