Simon Kitson (born 1967) is a British historian.

Life

Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the

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and his post-graduate studies at the

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

, under the supervision of Roderick Kedward. His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, was examined by Mark Mazower and Clive Emsley. He lectured in French Studies at the

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before becoming director of research at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP). Dr Kitson left ULIP in April 2011 and became a senior research fellow at the

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. Kitson is currently an Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a

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of the

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and a fellow of the

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. He is also known for the web resource on Vichy France that he set up and for being the founder of the Facebook group 'Simon Kitson's France: News and Discussion'. He is British Correspondent of the French history journal ''Vingtième Siècle''. and is on the editorial board of the ''Journal of War and Culture Studies''. Kitson has worked extensively on the French police and counter-espionage services. He is also a specialist on

Vichy France Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...

, on which he published ''Vichy et la Chasse aux Espions Nazis'' with Autrement of Paris in 2005, ''The Hunt for Nazi Spies'' with the

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in 2008. and ''Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945'' with Brill of Amsterdam in 2014.

Publications

;Books *''Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945'', Amsterdam, Brill, 2014 * ''The Hunt for Nazi Spies'', Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2008 * ''Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis'', Paris, Autrement, 2005 * (with Hanna Diamond) ''Vichy, Resistance, Liberation'' (essays in honour of Rod Kedward), Oxford, Berg, 2005 * 'The Marseille Police in their context from Popular Front to Liberation', ''D Phil thesis'', University of Sussex, 1995

References

;Sources *
Simon Kitson, ULIPQueen Mary Experts' Guide

External links

Kitson's Vichy Web
* Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi , Review by The Spectatorbr>Spy Vs. Spy – January 2, 2008 – The New York Sun
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitson, Simon 1960s births Living people British historians of World War II English historians Historians of Nazism British social historians Historians of France Historians of Europe British international relations scholars British military writers British historians of the Holocaust British military historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of Vichy France Academic staff of the University of Auckland People educated at King Edward's School, Bath British male writers Alumni of Ulster University British male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people)