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.
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.
In 2005, he received the Italian literary award, Feudo Di Maida Prize, for his book Il nuovo ordine mediterraneo. 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. It has been described as an "illuminating appraisal of Fascist Italy's ambitions" and "pioneering".
Rodogno holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and University of Geneva.

Publications

Representative publications include:
  • Night on Earth – Humanitarian Organizations’ Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes on Behalf of Civilian Populations
  • Humanitarian Photography: A History
  • Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire
  • ''Fascism’s European Empire''

    Interviews

  • With the Lausanne Project,