Marek Tamm
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Marek Tamm | |
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 Marek Tamm speaking at a symposium in 2012 | |
| Born | November 4, 1973 Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | University of Tartu EHESS |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medieval history, cultural history, historiography, memory studies, digital history |
| Institutions | Tallinn University |
| Doctoral advisor | Jüri Kivimäe |
Marek Tamm (born 4 November 1973) is an Estonian historian and professor of cultural history at Tallinn University.[1] His research spans medieval Baltic and Livonian history as well as historical theory, historiography, cultural memory studies and digital history.[1][2]
He has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 2021 and has served as its vice-president since 2024.[3][4] In 2023, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.[5]
Tamm studied history and semiotics at the University of Tartu (1998) and completed a master's degree in medieval studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris (1999).[6]
In 2009 he received a PhD at Tallinn University with a dissertation titled Inventing Livonia: Religious and Geographical Representations of the Eastern Baltic Region in Early Thirteenth Century, supervised by Jüri Kivimäe.[7]
Career
Tamm is affiliated with Tallinn University, where he became professor of cultural history in 2015 and has also led the university's Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies.[1][6][2] In 2023 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University (The Europe Center).[2]
Scholarship and reception
Tamm's work in historical theory and memory studies has been discussed in academic book reviews and scholarly venues.[8] His co-authored book The Fabric of Historical Time (with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon) has been reviewed in KronoScope and in the Estonian weekly Sirp.[9] [10] An edited volume co-edited by Tamm, Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region, has also been reviewed in specialist forums and journals.[11][12]
Editorial work
Tamm has served as editor-in-chief of the history journal Acta Historica Tallinnensia.[13] He has served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of History.[14]
Honors
In 2014, Tamm was awarded the grade of Chevalier (Knight) of the French Ordre des Palmes académiques.[15]
