Her PhD thesis was entitled 'The Illustrated Copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, cod.
[6] Brubaker was simultaneously employed as an instructor in the Department of Art, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, between 1981 and 1983.
[7] In 1994, Brubaker moved to the University of Birmingham in England, where she has continued her research and teaching career up until the present day; in 2005, she was appointed as Professor of Byzantine Art History.
[8] She arranged to share the position with Dr Ruth Macrides, so enabling both women to do research and "have a life".
[11] Her interests have extended since to the cultural history of Iconoclasm and the development of the cult of icons, on which she wrote two now-basic books on the subject with John Haldon.