At the grave of the Sufi scholar Eva de Vitray Meyerovic, Konya

                                                                                             photo ©Ibrahim Divarci

Katharine Branning is a writer, librarian and art historian who holds degrees from Pratt Institute, the University of Paris Sorbonne and the Ecole du Louvre.  At the Louvre she majored in Islamic arts, with a specialty in Islamic glass.

As an independent researcher and glass artist, she has conducted annual field work relative to architecture and decorative arts in Turkey since 1978. 

She has been a librarian at the French Institute of Architecture in Paris, the French Embassy Cultural Services and the Alliance Française in New York City.  She was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France, one of the nation's highest honors, for her work promoting French language and culture through the creation of numerous libraries and systems of study in both France and the United States. 

Her book of essays on Turkey, Yes, I would..., was published in 2010 by Blue Dome Press.

She currently lives in New York, where she is Vice-President of the French Institute Alliance Française.