[3] Her dissertation under Kermit Champa there was titled "The West Choir Screen at Mainz Cathedral: Studies in Program, Patronage and Meaning.
[7] Her work has also been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
[16] The following year she collaborated with Joanne Bloom to curate an exhibition at Harvard University's Fine Arts Library called "Camera Woman Along the Medieval Pilgrimage Roads" which focused on the early 20th-century photographer Lucy Wallace Porter (1876–1962).
[17] She is currently writing a book on the life and scholarly imagination of the legendary Harvard medievalist Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883–1933).
[1] Brush was married in 1998 to John Shearman, professor of Italian Renaissance art at Harvard University,[18] until his death in August 2003.