Kristina Jõekalda is an associate professor at the Doctoral School, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. Her research focuses on the history of art historiography and heritage preservation in the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of nationalism studies – power games behind art history. She has published articles and organised conferences on these topics.
Her dissertation is published as German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’ (Tallinn 2020). She has edited the volumes War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe” (special issue of kunsttexte.de, 2024), European Peripheries of Architectural Historiography (with Petra Brouwer; special issue of The Journal of Architecture, 2020), A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades (with Krista Kodres and Michaela Marek; Böhlau 2019), and Debating German Heritage: Art History and Nationalism during the Long Nineteenth Century (with Kodres; special issue of Kunstiteaduslikke Uurimusi / Studies on Art and Architecture, 2014).
She has been a postdoctoral associate at Yale University (2022), and a visiting fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (2024) and at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2018).
Jõekalda teaches courses relating to her research field, as well as general courses about academic writing (PhD, MA), incl. in the context of artistic and practice based research. On the latter topic she offers consultations to PhD students.
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