Davide Rodogno Explained

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"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Davide RODOGNO IHEID . 2023-11-22 . www.graduateinstitute.ch.
2. Web site: Davide RODOGNO IHEID . 2023-11-22 . www.graduateinstitute.ch.
3. Web site: 2014-01-06 . Former Fellows & Guests . 2023-11-23 . Institute for Transnational & Spatial History . en-US.
4. Web site: Autori e studenti premiati 2003-2004-2005 Feudo di Maida . 2023-11-23 . it-IT.
5. Burgwyn . H. James . September 2008 . Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War. By Davide Rodogno. Translated by, Adrian Belton. New Studies in European History. Edited by, Peter Baldwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. v+504. $99.00. . The Journal of Modern History . en . 80 . 3 . 694–696 . 10.1086/593432 . 0022-2801.
6. Hametz . M. E. . 2007-06-01 . DAVIDE RODOGNO. Fascism's European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War. Translated by ADRIAN BELTON. (New Studies in European History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xxi, 504. $99.00 . The American Historical Review . 112 . 3 . 949–950 . 10.1086/ahr.112.3.949 . 0002-8762.
7. Web site: Fascism's European Empire Printed_Matter . 2023-11-23 . en-US.
8. Web site: Prof Davide Rodogno . 2023-11-22 . Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies . en-GB.
9. Web site: Review of *Humanitarian Photography: A History* Society for US Intellectual History . 2023-11-29 . en-US.
10. Mirkova . Anna . September 2013 . Book Review: Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914 . Journal of World History . 24 . 3 . 715–718 . JSTOR.
11. Fleet . Kate . 29 May 2013 . Book Review: Against Massacre. Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914 By DAVIDE RODOGNO . Journal of Islamic Studies . 25 . 1 . 77–79.