Kathryn Agnes Huether is currently Academic Coordinator for the Project on AI & Extremism with UCLA’s Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities Program. She previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Antisemitism Studies at UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate. She earned her PhD in Musicology, with a minor in Cultural Studies, from the University of Minnesota and holds a second master's degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. She has held visiting appointments at Bowdoin College and Vanderbilt University and was the 2021–2022 American University and Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Her research examines how sound mediates Holocaust memory, antisemitism, racial violence, digital extremism, and the politics of emerging technologies. Bringing together digital humanities, sound studies, Jewish studies, Holocaust & Genocide studies, and musicology, her work explores the role of listening, media, and artificial intelligence in shaping contemporary cultures of hate and remembrance. She has published in Sound Studies, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music and Politics, and served as guest editor for the series "Hate and Non-Human Listening" with Sounding Out!.
Huether has organized national scholarly initiatives, including the 2025 roundtable Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis, represented UCLA at the Eradicate Global Hate Summit, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hate Studies. She is a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University's (HEFNU) Virtual Speakers Bureau and has been an invited educator at its regional institutes.
Her current book projects include Sounding Hate: Sonic Politics in the Age of Platforms and AI and Sounding the Holocaust in Film.
