Marek Tamm

Marek Tamm
Marek Tamm speaking at a symposium in 2012
Born (1973-11-04) November 4, 1973
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materUniversity of Tartu
EHESS
Scientific career
FieldsMedieval history, cultural history, historiography, memory studies, digital history
InstitutionsTallinn University
Doctoral advisorJüri 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]

Education

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]

Selected works

English-language books

  • 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Marek Tamm". Tallinn University. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  2. ^ a b c "Marek Tamm". Stanford University — The Europe Center (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies). Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  3. ^ "Marek Tamm". Estonian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  4. ^ "Board of the Academy elected". Estonian Academy of Sciences. 2024-12-04. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  5. ^ "Akadeemik Marek Tamm valiti Academia Europaea liikmeks". Estonian Academy of Sciences (in Estonian). 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  6. ^ a b "Marek Tamm". Tallinna Ülikool (in Estonian). Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  7. ^ "Inventing Livonia: Religious and Geographical Representations of the Eastern Baltic Region in Early Thirteenth Century" (PDF). ETERA. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  8. ^ Merrill, Samuel (2016). "Marek Tamm (ed.), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory". Cultural History. 5 (1): 109–111. doi:10.3366/cult.2016.0118.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Ajaloo aja kangas (review of The Fabric of Historical Time)". Sirp (in Estonian). 2024-01-05. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Rezension zu: Mänd, Anu; Tamm, Marek (Hrsg.): Making Livonia". H-Soz-Kult (in German). Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  13. ^ "Acta Historica Tallinnensia — Editorial Board". Estonian Academy Publishers. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  14. ^ van den Akker, Chiel (2022). "Welcome Note from the Editor-in-Chief: The Task of Philosophy of History". Journal of the Philosophy of History. 16 (2): 132–137. doi:10.1163/18722636-12341477. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
  15. ^ "French Ambassador gave a distinguished service order to Marek Tamm". Tallinn University. 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2025-12-29.
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