John Mackintosh Foot (born 8 November 1964) is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.
From 1989 until 1995, Foot was an associate lecturer at Cambridge University, organising seminars on Italian and French history during the 20th 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, D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara, IULM and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea), on the themes of postwar migration movements and urban developments of the Italian cities, especially with respect to 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 (1996).
Foot has written a history of Italian football, Calcio, published in 2006 (a 2007 edition included details of Italy's 2006 World Cup victory and the calciopoli scandal).
In 2009, he published the study Italy's Divided Memory, which appeared in a longer Italian version as Fratture d'Italia.
Foot has written for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and other publications.