His doctoral thesis on the Marseille Police, was examined by Mark Mazower and Clive Emsley.
[4] Kitson is currently an Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
[citation needed] He is British Correspondent of the French history journal Vingtième Siècle.
[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.