Talk with Mart Kuldkepp, John S. Saden Visiting Professor

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Mart Kuldkepp is Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). He completed his PhD dissertation at University of Tartu, Estonia, in 2014, and joined UCL in 2015. More recently, he has also held the Estonian Diaspora Visiting Professorship at University of Tartu. Mart specialises on Scandinavian and Baltic history and politics (especially foreign and security policy, and early 20th century wars), but also has an interest in the Baltic Sea Region more broadly, including Germany and Russia. His recent book, Nordic Estonia (2024, in Estonian) explores the role that Estonia’s Nordic identity played for Estonia’s independence before World War II. His next book is The Shortest History of Scandinavia (2025, in English). At Yale, he will be teaching a postgraduate course about the independence of the Baltic states.