Chris Warne is Senior Lecturer in French History in the History Department at Sussex, and has been at the University since September 1999. He worked previously in the Modern Languages Department at Keele University.

After completing PhD research in the field of nineteenth-century French historiography at the University of Birmingham, Chris's research interests moved to the area of contemporary European history, with a particular focus on the evolution of popular, material and everyday cultures since 1945.

There are two broad strands to this research. In the first instance, he is especially interested in the ways that youth and subcultures can be the site for understanding social and cultural change. In the second instance, he is exploring the relationship between politics, culture and resistance. In this regard, he has also engaged with questions surrounding the archiving and recording of everyday experience, and especially how the archive is transformed by its encounter with the digital.