Kathe Hicks Albrecht

Kathe Hicks Albrecht is a nationally recognized leader in arts and education. After a career at American University, she was appointed to the National Council for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She also serves on the National Advisory Board for the National Museum of Women in the Arts.  Her book The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future was published in 2021. She also contributed an essay for The Aestheticization of History and The Butterfly Effect, edited by Nancy Wellington Bookhart. Albrecht received her BA in art history from UCLA, a master’s degree from American University, and PhD from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.