Martin attended Denison University in Granville, Ohio before graduating from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He then received a Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University and the Doctorate.Phil. from Oxford University where he was a member of Lincoln College.
He then received a Bachelor of Divinity from Yale University and the Doctorate.Phil.
Martin has spent his entire adult life in higher education, serving institutions like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and New York University before going on to Middlebury College where he was assistant professor of history and assistant to the President from 1976 to 1980. From 1980 to 1986, he was Associate Dean of the Divinity School at Harvard University and Lecturer on British Church History. Then, for the next twenty years, he served as President and Professor of History at two liberal arts colleges, Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1997 and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia from 1997 to 2006. Martin is author of Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again (University of California Press: 2008) which tells the story of his six-month sabbatical at Saint John"s College, the Great Books School, in Annapolis, Maryland, in 2004 where he enrolled as a 61-year-old freshman. At Saint John"s he read Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, and Herodotus, and went out for crew, racing at the Head of the Occoquan with eight teenagers. He is also the author of Office to College:A Guide for Parents (University of Chicago Press: 2015) which provides the parents of first-year college students with a comprehensive view of what their children will experience after leaving high school and home for college, and Brave Noises: Journal of a First-year College President (Amazoncom: 2015) which tells of the author"s first year as a college president including how he got the job. Doctor Martin is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Lehigh University, Moravian College, Drew University, Randolph-Macon College, and Morningside College.
He also serves on the Board of the British Schools and Universities Foundation in New York City and is a member of the Board of in Mamaroneck, New New York From Oxford University where he was a member of Lincoln College.
