John Foot (historian)

John Mackintosh Foot (born 8 November 1964, London) is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Life and career

The son of journalist Paul Foot and his first wife, the former Monica Beckinsale,^[1] Foot graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1986, and in 1991 gained his doctorate from the Cambridge University from his submission of a thesis on the socialist movements in Milan between 1914 and 1921. From 1989 until 1995 he was an associate lecturer at the Cambridge University, organising seminars on Italian and French history during the twentieth century. From 1992 to 1995 he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge he held a series of lectures at sevearl Italian universities ( Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, University of Pescara, IULM and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea ), on the themes of post-war migration movements and urban developments of the Italian cities, especially with respect to the case of Milan .

Later, he taught subjects related to the history and politics of Europe, with an emphasis on Italy, at several British universities, including Reading (1994), Keele (1995–96) and Strathclyde Universities (1996). From 1996 to 2000 he worked at the Italian Department of the University College of London (UCL), and then became, until 2004, a professor of Italian history for the same institution. He now teaches modern Italian history at University College.

From 1994 to 1997 he was secretary of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, staying on the executive committee until 1999. In 1999 he was awarded by the University of Cambridge Dyos Prize for Urban History (Dyos Prize in Urban History). From 2003 he has been a member of the editorial board of The Twentieth Century, a biannual publication dedicated to contemporary history, published by the Historical Institute of Modena .

In 2006 he was part of the jury The City of Cities, organized by the Province of Milan, and in 2007 was in the jury DH Lawrence organized by the Province of Cagliari.

Bibliography

Selected books

• Milan Since the Miracle: City, Culture and Identity, Oxford: Berg, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85973-550-3
• Modern Italy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 ISBN 978-0333669051
• Italian cityscapes: culture and urban change in contemporary Italy (edited with Robert Lumley), Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004 ISBN 9780859897365
• Pedalare! Pedalare!, Bloomsbury, 2006 ISBN 978-1408822197
• Calcio: A History of Italian Football, Harper Perennial, 2007 ISBN 978-0007175758 (aka, Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer, Nation Books, 2007 ISBN 978-1568583686)
• Italy's Divided Memory, Palgrave Mavmillan, 2011 ISBN 978-0230120495

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