My publications explore the relationships between archaeology, infrastructure, and historical landscapes, with a particular focus on the cultural and political consequences of development projects in Turkey and the Middle East. Combining historical analysis, ethnography, and the study of visual and archival sources, this work examines how archaeological knowledge, heritage preservation, and historical memory are reshaped by infrastructures such as dams and by the politics of the past.
Book Project
Dissard, Laurent.
Submerged: Archaeological Rescue and Historical Erasure in Eastern Turkey.
Book manuscript in preparation.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Dissard, Laurent. 2021.
“Silence as Denial: Fethiye Çetin’s Anneannem and the Secrets of Turkey’s Hidden Armenians.”
Revue des Sciences Sociales 66: 52–61.
Dissard, Laurent, and İlknur Kurşunlugil. 2020.
“Infrastructural Commemorations: The Ground-Breaking Ceremony of the Third Bosphorus Bridge and the Endless ‘Conquest of Istanbul.’”
L’Espace Politique 41.
Dissard, Laurent. 2019.
“Learning by Doing: Archaeological Excavations as ‘Communities of Practice.’”
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 29 (1): 1–8.
Dissard, Laurent. 2016.
“Between Exposure and Erasure: The Armenian Heritage of Arapgir in Present-Day Eastern Turkey.”
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines 8: 25–49.
Rosenzweig, Melissa S., and Laurent Dissard. 2013.
“Common Ground: Archaeological Practice and Local Communities in Southeastern Turkey.”
Near Eastern Archaeology 76 (3): 150–157.
Dissard, Laurent. 2012.
“Seeing the Past from Nowhere: Images and Science in Archaeology.”
Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 6 (1): 24–33.
Rosenzweig, Melissa S., Laurent Dissard, and Timothy Matney. 2011.
“Beyond Ethics: Considerations in Problematizing Community Involvement and Outreach in Archaeological Practice.”
Archaeological Review of Cambridge 26 (2): 59–70.
Book Chapters
Dissard, Laurent. 2021.
“Hasankeyf, the Ilısu Dam, and the Kurdish Movement in Turkey.”
In Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, edited by S. E. Hunt, 191–201. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Dissard, Laurent. 2017.
“From Shining Icons of Progress to Contested Infrastructures: ‘Damming’ the Munzur Valley in Eastern Turkey.”
In Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey: Environmental, Urban and Secular Politics, edited by Fatma Müge Göçek, 229–257. London and New York: I.B. Tauris.
Dissard, Laurent. 2012.
“Claude Lévi-Strauss.”
In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology: Political and Social Archaeology, edited by L. Weiss, U. Z. Rizvi, and W. Londoño. New York: Springer.
Dissard, Laurent. 2009.
“Visual Archaeo-technology and Politics in Southeastern Turkey.”
In Archaeology and the Politics of Vision in a Post-Modern Context, edited by Julian Thomas and Victor Oliveira Jorge, 306–329. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book Reviews
Dissard, Laurent. 2022.
Review of Museums, Emotions and Memory Culture: The Politics of the Past in Turkey, by Gönül Bozoğlu.
International Journal of Heritage Studies.
