Marek Tamm
Marek Tamm is an Estonian historian and professor of cultural history at Tallinn University. His research spans medieval Baltic and Livonian history as well as historical theory, historiography, cultural memory studies and digital history.
He has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 2021 and has served as its vice-president since 2024. In 2023, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.
Education
Tamm studied history and semiotics at the University of Tartu and completed a master's degree in medieval studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris.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.
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.In 2023 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.
Scholarship and reception
Tamm's work in historical theory and memory studies has been discussed in academic book reviews and scholarly venues.His co-authored book The Fabric of Historical Time has been reviewed in KronoScope and in the Estonian weekly Sirp.
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.
Editorial work
Tamm has served as editor-in-chief of the history journal Acta Historica Tallinnensia.He has served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of History.