Kristina Jõekalda
Kristina Jõekalda Kristina Jõekalda is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. She has studied art history there and general history at the University of Helsinki. In 2018 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (financed by Böckler-Mare-Balticum-Stiftung); in 2022 a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University. Her dissertation was entitled „German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the ,Long Nineteenth Century‘“ (Tallinn 2020). Her research and teaching is concerned with the history of art and architecture, historiography and heritage preservation in the Baltic region, in the context of nationalism and colonialism. She has co-edited the volume „A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades“ (Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2019), and the special issues „European Peripheries of Architectural Historiography“ (The Journal of Architecture 2020) and „Debating German Heritage: Art History and Nationalism during the Long Nineteenth Century“ (Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on Art and Architecture 2014).
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