Davide is Professor in International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. His teaching and research interests include the history and politics of humanitarian actions and interventions, war and peace, transnational movements of people and refugees, and on the work of advocacy and grassroot movements; the history and politics of international organisations and of philanthropic foundations, of international public health, of internationalism(s) and internationalists.
Davide’s doctoral thesis was published in English as Fascism’s European Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Subsequently he published Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire (1815-1914), the Birth of a Concept and International Practice (Princeton University Press, 2011). During the summer of 2012 the Kofi Annan Foundation commissioned Rodogno to write a report on the experience of the United Nations and League of Arab States Joint Special Envoy for Syria. More recently, Davide has co-edited Humanitarian Photography (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Networks of Expert and Organizations in the Long Nineteenth Century (Berghahn, 2014), and The League of Nations’ Work on Social Issues (United Nations Press, 2016). He is currently working on a third monograph, tentatively entitled Night on Earth – Humanitarian Organizations’ Relief and Rehabilitation Programmes on Behalf of Civilian Populations (1918-1939). In 2017 he was awarded two SNSF grants, the first entitled ‘The Myth of Homogeneity: Minority Protection and Assimilation in Western Europe, 1919–1939’ (with Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, 2017-2020); the second with Ludovic Tournès, Thomas David and Yi-Tang Lin entitled ‘Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization: The Circulation of Elites, Knowledge, and Practices of Modernization (1920s–1970s)’.