Dr. Kathe Hicks Albrecht serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and holds a Presidential appointment to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Albrecht served as visual resources curator at American University for twenty-five years. Dr. Albrecht's book: Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future was published 2021 by Bloomsbury Press. Albrecht holds a doctorate from IDSVA, where she was awarded the Ted Coons Dissertation Prize, BA (Art History) from UCLA and MA (Art History) from American University.