Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar

Ene Kõresaar is a Professor of Oral History and Memory Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She has published on the memory of World War II and Stalinism, the post-communist narrative periodization of the 20th century as well as on the dynamics of social and cultural remembering since 1989. She has studied mnemonic processes in oral history, grassroots recognition politics, commemorative journalism, and museums. She has edited and co-authored several books and special issues, most recently Baltic Socialism Remembered: Memory and Life Story since 1989 (Routledge 2019). Her current project deals with mnemonic pluralism in Baltic history museums.