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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,〔Patrick Sawer ("Paul Foot Dies at 66" ), ''Evening Standard'', 19 July 2004〕 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 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, and he held a series of lectures at several 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, and was a member of the executive committee until 1999. In 1999, he was awarded by the University of Cambridge the Dyos Prize for Urban History (Dyos Prize in Urban History). Since 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, organised by the Province of Milan, and in 2007 he was part of the jury DH Lawrence organized by the Province of Cagliari. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Foot (historian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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