Kristina Jõekalda is an associate professor (Doctoral School) and senior researcher (Institute of Art History and Visual Culture) at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. She studied there and at the University of Helsinki. Her previous engagements include being a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, and a visiting fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her dissertation is published as “German Monuments in the Baltic Heimat? A Historiography of Heritage in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’” (Tallinn 2020). Her most recent publication is the edited volume “War on Monuments: Documenting the Debates over Russian and Soviet Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe” (special issue of kunsttexte.de 2024). She co-edited “A Socialist Realist History? Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades” (Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2019), as well as 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). She has also received fellowships from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and the Böckler-Mare-Balticum Foundation. She is an editor of Architectural Histories journal.