[1] Between 1945 and 1947 she travelled to London, Luxembourg, Frankfurt and Berlin with the Office of War Information for the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Division of the U.S. Military Government in Germany.
[2] After returning to the United States in 1947 Shepherd worked as the assistant curator of Textiles at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Fiber artist Evelyn Svec Ward worked under Sheperd from 1948 until 1955 in the textile department at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
[1] Shepherd published widely on medieval textiles, ancient Near Eastern and early Islamic art, frequently introducing to scholarship new acquisitions by her institutions.
[5] Her foundational chapter on Sasanian art for the Cambridge History of Iran covers architecture, rock reliefs, jewelry, textiles, ceramics and glassware.