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Maria Elisabeth Leemet is a doctoral student and junior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture, whose research focuses on visual culture that served to consolidate power in the contexts of Estonia’s Era of Silence, the German occupation, and post-war Stalinism. Her research examines authoritarian and totalitarian visual communication as a tool for rewriting cultural memory. Her doctoral dissertation, whose broader aim is to explore the power of images through images of power, is supervised by Prof. Krista Kodres and Dr Kädi Talvoja. Maria holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA): a BA in Heritage Conservation and Restoration and an MA in Art History and Visual Culture Studies. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she worked as a project manager at the Heritage Conservation and Restoration Laboratory (MUKOLA).
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PhD student-Junior researcher
