Kristina Jõekalda

Kristina Jõekalda is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian Academy of Arts. In 2018 she was a Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Her doctoral dissertation German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’ (Tallinn 2020) examines architectural monuments in the Baltic region as eyewitnesses to historical processes and considers their representation in subsequent art historiography. She has published widely in the field and co-edited special issues of journals such as European Peripheries of Architectural Historiography (The Journal of Architecture 2020) and the book A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades (Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2019).

At Yale Dr. Jõekalda will work on several articles that engage with the institutional history of heritage preservation, discussions over Germanness and colonialism, and the continuing influence of the Baltic Germans during the interwar era and beyond.