Linda Kaljundi
Project Leader
Linda Kaljundi is a historian and curator. She is Professor of Cultural History at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Senior Research Fellow at Tallinn University. She holds a PhD from the University of Helsinki. She has published several papers on Estonian and Baltic history and historiography, nationalism and collective memory, and the history of the environment and colonialism. In addition to her research, she has co-curated several exhibitions, including The Conqueror’s Eye (2019), Landscapes of Identity: Estonian Art 1700–1945 (2021) and Art and Science (2022)
She has also dealt with the legacy of World War II and the Soviet era in the exhibition and monograph History in Images – Image in History (2018, with Tiina-Mall Kreem). She has also edited the collection “Landscape and Memory: Heritage construction and its history in Estonia” (2014, with Helen Sooväli-Sepping). She has taught courses on memory and heritage at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University and elsewhere.
CV and publications: https://www.etis.ee/CV/Linda_Kaljundi/est