Molly Judd

Research Summary

Molly Judd’s research explores how landscapes and environments shape the production and interpretation of Romanesque art. Her work focuses on the Fenland landscape – a historic wetland region in the east of England – and uses interdisciplinary approaches to examine how this distinctive environmental context influenced the design, function, and meaning of the Romanesque.

Biography

Molly Judd is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, where her research is funded by the AHRC and supervised by Dr Laura Slater. She graduated from Cambridge in 2019 with a First-Class BA, receiving the award for the best dissertation in Art History. She subsequently completed an MSci in the History and Philosophy of Science (First Class), before undertaking an MA at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was awarded a High Distinction and the prize for the best dissertation on a medieval topic.

In 2025, Molly was appointed Jill Franklin Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. She has also completed a three-month placement at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she carried out provenance research on the museum’s Ethiopian collections. She has presented her research at various conferences and plans to present at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2026.

Alongside her research, Molly works as a Fieldworker and Outreach Officer for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. She is also a supervisor for the Politics of Display course in the History of Art Tripos at the University of Cambridge.