Alain Schnapp

FSI-Humanities Center International Visitor, 2019-20
Professor Emeritus, Classical Archeology at Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Alain Schnapp is Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology at the Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). His main interests are Greek iconography and cultural history of Antiquity. He has been visiting scholar or visiting professor in various universities and research institutes, including Princeton University, Stanford University, Getty Research Institute, Churchill College (Cambridge), Universität Heidelberg, Universität Basel, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, Morphomata Köln, Istituto Orientale  Napoli, Università di Perugia, Collegium Budapest, and the University of Aarhus.

Main publications:

  • A.Schnapp and P. Vidal-Naquet: The French Student Uprising, Beacon Press 1971
  • The Discovery of the Past, British Museum Press, Abrams, New York 1996
  • Le chasseur et la cité, chasse et érotique dans la Grèce ancienne, Albin Michel, Paris 1997
  • Alain Schnapp with L. von Falkenhausen, P. Miller, T.Murray (ed): World antiquarianism, comparative perspectives, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2013
  • Was ist eine Ruine? Entwurf einer vergleichenden Perspektive, Wallstein, Göttingen 2014
  • Ruines, essai de perspective comparée, Les presses du Réel, Dijon, 2015
  • J. P. Demoule, D. Garcia and A. Schnapp(eds) Une histoire des civilisations, comment l’archéologie bouleverse nos connaissances, Paris , La Découverte 2018

Schnapp was nominated by the Department of Classics.

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