Andres Kasekamp

Andres Kasekamp is the Elmar Tampõld Chair of Estonian Studies and Professor of History. His research on contemporary Baltic politics has two primary foci: conflict and cooperation in the Baltic Sea region, and far right parties and movements. His first book was The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia and his prize-winning A History of the Baltic States has been translated into several languages. Currently, he is editing The Oxford Handbook of Modern Baltic History.

Before coming to Toronto, he was Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu and Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute in Tallinn. He gained his PhD in modern East European history from University College London. He has been a visiting fellow at St. Antony’s College in Oxford, the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs in Oslo and the Institute of European History in Mainz, and a visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. 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. Prof. Kasekamp has appeared as an expert in the foreign affairs committee of the parliaments of Canada, Estonia, Finland and the European Union, as well as the Baltic Assembly.