Alain Duplouy

Monte Torretta di Pietragalla: A pre-Roman Hilltop Settlement in Ancient Lucania, Excavated by Francesco Ranaldi (1956-1965) and Dinu Adamesteanu (1969-1992)

Alain Duplouy has a double doctorate in history (in Brussels) and archaeology (in Paris) and has been teaching Greek archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2003. He was also British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds (2009), Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (2011), Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Harvard University (2018/19), Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2022), and Getty Villa scholar (2024).

He specializes in archaic Greece and is the author of numerous publications on the subject, most notably Le Prestige des élites (2006) and Construire la Cité (2019). He is also the co-editor of the volumes Defining citizenship in archaic Greece (2018), La Lucanie entre deux mers: Archéologie et patrimoine (2019) and Athens and Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period. The Spatial Roots of Politics and Society (2024).

Following archaeological research in Greece (Itanos) and Italy (Laos), he has been co-director of the Franco-German archaeological exploration of Pietragalla with Agnes Henning (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Vincenzo Capozzoli (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).