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"

References