Introduction

Marek Tamm is the Professor of Cultural History at the School of Humanities in Tallinn University. He is member of Estonian Academy of Sciences. He is also Head of Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies and of Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts. Graduated in history and semiotics at the University of Tartu (1998), he earned his master degree in medieval studies from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1999) and his doctorate degree in medieval history from Tallinn University (2009). Author of five books, of a hundred scholarly articles published in Estonian, English and French, and editor of twenty collections of articles.

Areas of research

cultural history

historical theory

medieval studies

historical culture

cultural memory studies

cultural theory

digital history