Davide Rodogno

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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]

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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]

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References

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  2. "Davide RODOGNO | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  3. "Former Fellows & Guests". Institute for Transnational & Spatial History. 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  4. "Autori e studenti premiati 2003-2004-2005 | Feudo di Maida" (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  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. 80 (3): 694–696. doi:10.1086/593432. ISSN   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. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.3.949. ISSN   0002-8762.
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  8. "Prof Davide Rodogno". Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  9. "Review of *Humanitarian Photography: A History* | Society for US Intellectual History" . Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  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 via 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.