Andres Kasekamp

Andres Kasekamp is the Elmar Tampõld Chair of Estonian Studies and Professor of History in the Department of History and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu and Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute in Tallinn. He has held visiting positions at Humboldt University in Berlin, the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs and the Institute of European History in Mainz. He has served as the President of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies and Editor of Journal of Baltic Studies and is a member of several international editorial and academic advisory committees. His research interests include populist radical right parties, memory politics, European foreign and security policy, and cooperation and conflict in the Baltic Sea region. His first book was The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia (Palgrave 2000) and his prize-winning A History of the Baltic States (Macmillan 2018, 2nd ed.) has been translated into several languages. Currently, he is editing The Oxford Handbook of Modern Baltic History.