the Navajo (Diné). Albert also studied different political behaviors among closely related countries, including between Ruanda and Urundi. Albert published her work widely and contributed to the publications of other researchers. Albert published her research related to social values based on social statutes among the Burundi in Denise Paulme's Women of Tropical Africa. She also edited the People of Rimrock: A Study of Values in Five Cultures (1967), along with Evon Z. Vogt. Albert also applied her value system research in the United States, publishing an article on value uncertainty and value conflicts in American society, related to changes in the mid-twentieth century and the presence of alternative value systems make up of different cultural groups in American society. Despite her contributions to publications, semiotician Thomas Albert Seboek noted that it was her teaching rather than her publications that ensured her legacy in late-twentieth century American semiotics. Albert taught graduate seminars on semiotics focused on discourse analysis and systematic lexicography, reviving semiotics in the American university curriculum 25 years after Charles Morris’ seminars at the University of Chicago. Albert was also active in teaching anthropology and creating educational resources for students. She contributed to the Teaching of Anthropology (1963), by David G. Mandelbaum, and served as Assistant Director of the Ethnology of Educational Resources in Anthropology Project. Academic positions Albert maintained numerous academic positions throughout her career. From 1957–1958, Albert became a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. From 1958 to 1966, Albert taught speech at the University of California at Berkley. According to a record from the United States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in 1961, Albert studied the beliefs, laws, and values of the non-literate peoples in the Ruandi-Urundi territory during this tenure. Albert taught anthropology and speech at Northwestern University from 1966 to 1977. Albert served as chairman of the Committee for African Studies, later renamed the Institute of International Studies, at the University of California at Berkeley from 1963 to 1965 before being appointed vice-chairman of the Speech Department at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. Albert worked as a professor of anthropology and speech at Northwestern University from 1966 to 1977, becoming chairman of the Anthropology and Speech Department in 1973. Albert was actively involved in professional anthropological associations. She participated in a two-day conference of regional specialists in West and Central Africa fieldwork