Simon Martin was awarded a PhD by University College London. His doctoral thesis was published as Football and Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy in 2004 and won the British Society for Sport’s History’s Lord Aberdare prize for literary history. Translated as Calcio e Fascismo, it was published in 2006 by Oscar Mondadori. Continuing his research on sport in modern Italy his second monograph Sport Italia: the Italian love affair with sport was published by IB Tauris in 2011 and also won the Lord Aberdare Prize. He has taught at UCL, the University of Hertfordshire in addition to a variety of American University programs in Italy. A Research Fellow at the British School at Rome, he is currently working on Fascist material culture and memory in postwar Italy.
