Marek Tamm

Marek Tamm
Marek Tamm speaking at a symposium in 2012
Born (1973-11-04) November 4, 1973
Tallinn, Estonia
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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