[1] Albert conducted ethnological research related to speech, values, and ethics, employing a cross-cultural approach studying different social classes, ethnic groups, and locations.

"[3] American anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn was a researcher of the Navajo (Diné) people at Harvard University and the author of Navaho Witchcraft (1944).

[3] Albert worked as a research associate at the Laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard University shortly before Kluckhohn's death in 1960.

[3] Albert's affiliation with Harvard was confirmed in her 1956 article, "The classification of values: a method and illustration," published in the American Anthropologist.

[4] Albert developed a variety of research interests, including cross-cultural anthropological studies of values and speech, semiotics, and eventually later in her life, fatalism.

[6] In 1953, she became a research associate at the Laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard University, a position she held until 1955 while conducting fieldwork with the Navajo (Diné).

[2] Albert's research utilized field notes, protocols, life histories, and monographs for analysis and generalization of value categories.

[7] Albert prevented her research from being overwhelmed by these variables by forming a "normal operating base"[2] of the value system.

[2] Albert identified knowledge, familial life, material possessions, and health as focal values for Ramah Navajo.

[2] From 1955 to 1957, Albert was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship in the Overseas Africa Program to conduct an ethnographic study of the Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa people of Burundi.

[4] Albert also studied Burundi speech rules related to petitioning a superior, formal or informal visiting, social ceremonies, rules of precedence and good speech manners, respect patterns and role relativism and orders of speaking based on social rank.

[1] 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.

[15] Albert became the assistant director of Ethnology for the National Science Foundation Project on Educational Resources in Anthropology for 1960 and 1961.

He explains in his book Global Semiotics that Albert was forced into early retirement due to a progressive chronic disease.