Simon Kitson
Simon Kitson (born c. 1967) is a British and naturalized New Zealand historian and author.
Life
[edit]Kitson did his undergraduate studies at the University of Ulster[1] and his post-graduate studies at the University of Sussex,[2] under the supervision of Roderick Kedward. His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, was examined by Mark Mazower and Clive Emsley.
Career
[edit]He lectured in French Studies at the University of Birmingham before becoming director of research at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP).[3] Dr Kitson left ULIP in April 2011 and became a senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research.[4] Kitson is currently an Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.[5] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society[6] and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.[7] He is also known for the web resource on Vichy France that he set up [8] and for being the founder of the Facebook group 'Simon Kitson's France: News and Discussion'.[citation needed] He is British Correspondent of the French history journal Vingtième Siècle.[9] and is on the editorial board of the Journal of War and Culture Studies.[10]
Kitson has worked extensively on the French police and counter-espionage services. He is also a specialist on Vichy France,[11] on which he published Vichy et la Chasse aux Espions Nazis with Autrement of Paris in 2005, The Hunt for Nazi Spies with the University of Chicago Press in 2008.[12] and Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945 with Brill of Amsterdam in 2014.[13]
Publications
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ↑ "NI Connections" (PDF).
- ↑ "University Professor to be interviewed on BBC radio – Scoop News".
- ↑ Simon Kitson, ULIP Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Dr Simon Kitson, BA (Ulster), PhD (Sussex), FRHS | Institute of Historical Research". www.history.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012.
- ↑ "Simon Kitson – The University of Auckland".
- ↑ "Royal Historical Society (RHS)". Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ "Center for Basque Studies" (PDF).
- ↑ "Simon Kitson". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ↑ "About Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire – Cairn International".
- ↑ "Taylor & Francis - Harnessing the Power of Knowledge".
- ↑ http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/bowles.html Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940–1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration
- ↑ The Hunt for Nazi Spies. University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ "Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936–1945 – Brill".
- Sources
- Simon Kitson, Birmingham at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 February 2003)
- Simon Kitson, ULIP
- Queen Mary Experts' Guide
External links
[edit]- Kitson's Vichy Web
- Review: Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, 1940–1942: complexités de la politique de collaboration
- The Hunt for Nazi Spies | Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi | Review by The Spectator
- Spy Vs. Spy – January 2, 2008 – The New York Sun
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- British historians of World War II
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- Historians of Vichy France
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