Vanessa Roghi

Independent Scholar (Italy)

The illness of desire: a cultural history of heroin 1996–2018

2021-2022: Fall

Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry

Vanessa Roghi is a historian. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. She has been teaching visual history at La Sapienza University, Rome for the past 15 years. Her research has focused on the impact of historical communication through films and television on contemporary imaginaries. She is the author and director of numerous historical documentaries. She has been working on two research projects financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) on Mussolini and the film industry in twentieth-century Italy. Her cultural history of heroin consumption in Italy is the first recent account on this topic. She studies the history of intellectuals, ideas, and margins. 

Website: https://vanessaroghi.com