Alain Schnapp

Alain Schnapp (18 sep 1946, Paris, France) is an archaeologist and historian, 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, Humanities Center at 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.

In 2001, Schnapp founded the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA, Paris), and was its director until 2005.

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
  
• ‘La mémoire qui flanche ou l’impossible normalisation de l’archéologie en France’, Le Débat, 1998 – 1999, p. 119 – 132.
• 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
• Une histoire universelle des ruines, des origines aux Lumières, La Bibliotheque du XXIe siecle, Éditions du Seuil, Paris 2020 (ISBN 978−2−02−128250−4)