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10 graduate studentships worth £5000 each

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Professor John Foot

Professor John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian.

His research specialisms include modern Italian history, urban history, the history of Milan, immigration in the twentieth century, cultural and social history, Italian politics, the Resistance, and micro and oral historical approaches.

His publications include:

  • Milan since the Miracle. City, Culture, Identity, Berg, Oxford, 2001
  • Milano dopo il miracolo. Biografia di una citta', Fetrinelli, Milan, 2003
  • Disastro! Disasters in Italy since1860: Culture, Politics, Society (edited with John Dickie and Frank Snowden), St Martins/Palgrave, New York, 2002
  • Pero: Citta' di Immigrazione: 1950-1970, Comune di Pero, 2002
  • City and Identity in Italy. Special issue of Modern Italy, 7,2, 2002 (edited with Robert Lumley), Exeter University Press, 2003, Modern Italy, Palgrave, 2003
  • Calcio. A History of Italian Football, 4th Estate, London, 2006
  • Calcio. 1898 - 2007. Storia dello sport che ha fatto l'Italia, Rizzoli, Milan 2007.

John Foot is also project manager on the AHRB funded Memory and Place project. He also directed the documentary film 'Piazzale Lugano, 22. Story of a House' (2004). He is currently working on a history of Italian cycling for publication in the UK and Italy and on the AHRC-funded project 'Divided country. Memory and History in 20th Century Italy'.