Marek Tamm

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). 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 (The Europe Center). == 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 (with Zoltán Boldizsár Simon) 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. == Honors ==

In 2014, Tamm was awarded the grade of Chevalier (Knight) of the French Ordre des Palmes académiques. == 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 ==