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]
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]
Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier: A Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia (with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, eds.). Ashgate, 2011.
Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Debating New Approaches to History (with Peter Burke, eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (with Laurent Olivier, eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Juri Lotman – Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region (with Anu Mänd, eds.). Routledge, 2020.
The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture (with Peeter Torop, eds.). Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
The Fabric of Historical Time (with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon). Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Works in Estonian
Monumentaalne ajalugu: esseid Eesti ajalookultuurist. Kultuurileht, 2012.
Monumentaalne konflikt: mälu, poliitika ja identiteet tänapäeva Eestis (with Pille Petersoo, eds.). Varrak, 2008.
↑Merrill, Samuel (2016). "Marek Tamm (ed.), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory". Cultural History. 5 (1): 109–111. doi:10.3366/cult.2016.0118.
↑Ksenofontova, Alexandra (2024). "The Fabric of Historical Time, written by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm". KronoScope. 23 (2): 229–232. doi:10.1163/15685241-20231538.
↑Mäesalu, Mihkel (2022). "Review of Making Livonia: Actors and Networks in the Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Sea Region". Speculum. 97 (3): 863–864. doi:10.1086/720676.
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