Davide Rodogno

Davide Rodogno is a Swiss and Italian historian of humanitarianism, human rights and international organisations since the nineteenth century. He also writes on authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.^[1]

Rodogno is a professor of international history at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was previously an RCUK Academic Fellow at the University of St Andrews and a research fellow at the London School of Economics.^[2][3]

In 2005, he received the Italian literary award, Feudo Di Maida Prize (in full, Premio Letterario Internazionale Feudo Di Maida), for his book Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo (published by Bollati Boringhieri, Turin).^[4] The book, a history of Italy's fascist imperial ambitions in the 1940s, was re-published by Cambridge University Press under the title Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006). It has been described as an "illuminating appraisal of Fascist Italy's ambitions" and "pioneering".^[5][6][7]

Rodogno holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and University of Geneva.^[8]

Publications

Representative publications include:

• Night on Earth – Humanitarian Organizations’ Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes on Behalf of Civilian Populations (1918–1939) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Humanitarian Photography: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2015)^[9]
• Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire (1815–1914) (Princeton University Press, 2011)^[10][11]
• Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Interviews

• With the Lausanne Project, episode 41: "Reading the clouds"