Dr. Attila Dézsi

Attila Dézsi, an archaeologist, studied Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology in Hamburg and Vienna. Since 2020, he has been a research associate at the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments at the Regional Council of Stuttgart, where he is involved in the inventory project “KZ-Komplex-Natzweiler: Denkmalfachliche Evaluierung der Außenlager und Arbeitsstätten in Baden-Württemberg.”

Additionally, he conducts research as a research associate at the University of Tübingen in the Collaborative Research Center 1070 “RessourcenKulturen” on the German immigrant colony Nueva Germania in 19th century Paraguay. In 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation on Contemporary Archaeology at sites of protest, which included investigations of the anti-nuclear protest village “Republik Freies Wendland”. The dissertation was awarded three academic prizes: Studienpreis der VGH Stiftung für Archäologie 2024, the Deutschen Studienpreis für Archäologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, and the Barbara-Scholkmann-Förderpreis für Historische Archäologie.

His research focuses on the democratization of archaeology, methodology and theory of Historical Archaeology, as well as sites of Nazi terror and alternative movements.