Brian D. Bunk is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who regularly teaches world history, modern Europe, and the history of sport. His courses on the global history of soccer and sport reflect his research focused on the subject in the context of the United States, on which his first book, From Football to Soccer: The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States, and his most recently published book, Beyond the Field: How Soccer Built Community in the United States, were based.