Leslie Brubaker

Leslie Brubaker
Leslie Brubaker
Born	1951 (age 74–75)
Spouse	Christopher Wickham (m. 1990)
Academic background
Education	Pennsylvania State University (BA, MA); Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
Thesis	The Illustrated Copy of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus in Paris (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Herbert L. Kessler
Academic work
Discipline	Art history
Sub-discipline	Byzantine art; Byzantine Iconoclasm; Byzantine manuscripts;
Notable works	Gender and the Transformation of the Roman World (2003); The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images (2011); Inventing Byzantine Iconoclasm (2012);

Leslie Brubaker (born 1951) is an expert in Byzantine illustrated manuscripts. She was appointed Professor of Byzantine Art at the University of Birmingham in 2005, and is now professor emerita. Her research interests includes female patronage, icons and the cult of the Virgin Mary. She was formerly the head of Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham. Professor Brubaker is the Chair of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. Her work is widely stocked in libraries around the world.