Kimberley Skelton

Biography

Kimberley Skelton received her PhD in art history from Yale University, after earning an MA in the history of architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in art history at Yale. Before coming to Durham as a COFUND Junior Research Fellow (2015-2017), she taught at Tufts and Brandeis Universities. Her research focuses on intersections of intellectual, phenomenological, and architectural history across seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. “Sensory Architecture: Empiricism, Mechanism, and the Early Modern Viewer,” the project that she is pursuing at Durham, explores how European architects regrounded building theory and design on a malleable sensory viewer in response to shifting seventeenth-century scientific and philosophical notions of human perception.

Research Interest

Research Interests are European architecture, 1600-1800, Early modern intellectual history, History of the senses, History of reading and of the book.