Marten Seppel (born January 6, 1979)[1] is an Estonian historian specializing in agrarian history.[2]
Education
Seppel graduated from the University of Tartu with a bachelor's degree in 2001. In 2003, he received a master's degree from the University of Cambridge.[3] On June 26, 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tartu, titled Näljaabi Liivi- ja Eestimaal 17. sajandist 19. sajandi alguseni (Famine Relief in Livonia and Estonia from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century).[4] His supervisors were Enn Tarvel and Tiit Rosenberg, and his reviewer was Aleksander Loit [et]. His dissertation won one of the two main prizes in the national competition for student research papers.[5] In 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at University College London, and from 2013 to 2014 at Uppsala University.[1]
Career
From 2008 to 2016, Seppel worked at the University of Tartu as a lecturer in general history, and then as an associate professor of early modern history.[2][3] In 2018, he was a visiting professor at the University of Greifswald.[1]
Seppel has been a member of the Learned Estonian Society since 2006 and has served as a member of its board. He is also a member of the Estonian Academic Historical Society (Estonian: Akadeemiline Ajalooselts), the Economic History Society, and The European Society for the History of Economic Thought.[1]
Awards and recognitions
2014: Estonian Historical Literature Annual Award[1]
^ abSeppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (2017). Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press.
