Dr. Kaisa Langer (currently on parental leave) worked at the TU Dresden at the Junior Professorship for the Economic and Social Networks of Germans in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Previously, she worked at the Estonian Literature Museum and the University of Tartu. In 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis on "Estonian Folklore Collections in the Late Stalinist Context" at the University of Tartu. As a cultural scientist, she focuses on personal networks and the discursive influence of practices in Estonia.
Further publications by Kaisa Langer, e.g:
How to Deal with Soviet Colonialism: Folklore Studies in Early Soviet Estonia and East Germany. Socialist Folkloristics: A Disciplinary Heritage. Edited by Toms Ķencis. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. Becoming a Folklorist in Early Soviet Estonia: Learning the Rhetoric of Socialist Research. Cultural Analysis, Vol 19 (2), 2021. https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~culturalanalysis/volume19_2/vol19_2_2_Langer.html
Immoral Obscenity: Censorship of Folklore Manuscript Collections in Late Stalinist Estonia", Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 7(1), 2013 Tartu, pp. 49-64. https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/JEF/article/view/22626
