Marju Kõivupuu

PhD Marju Kõivupuu (1960) is a folklorist and cultural historian. Her research interests at the Center for Landscape and Culture are related to the relationship between human and nature / landscape and the topic of cultural heritage. She also researches the culture of death and folk medicine. She has successfully supervised doctoral and master's students. Several of her monographs have received recognition at both the TU and republican levels. TU teaches a course in Estonian and comparative folklore, as well as several special courses (worldviews and religions, landscape heritage and everyday culture, etc.).