Katherine Bracher -- member of the Whitman faculty since 1967

Professor of Astronomy
Education: A.B., Mount Holyoke College; A.M., Ph.D., Indiana University

Interests:

-- astronomical:
• history of astronomy (author of a regular column, "Echoes of the Past," in the magazine Mercury, published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

-- non-astronomical:
• archaeology and ancient history (esp. Greece)
• early music (player of recorders, krummhorns, racketts, and other Renaissance instruments)

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