Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) was an American philosopher who specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She was a founding trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics as well as its first woman president. Gilbert was also one of the first women to be president of a division of the American Philosophical Association. She was the first female professor at Duke University and, during her lifetime, the only female chairman of a liberal arts department. She published four books on her studies, Maurice Blondel's Philosophy of Action (1924); Studies in Recent Aesthetics (1927); with Helmut Kuhn, A History of Aesthetics (1939); and Aesthetic Studies: Architecture and Poetry (1952). She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Brown University in 1942. Source: Wikipedia (en)