Kathryn Agnes Huether, PhD

Kathryn Agnes Huether is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Antisemitism Studies at UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. She earned her PhD in musicology with a minor in cultural studies from the University of Minnesota (2021) and holds a second master’s in religious studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. She has held visiting appointments at Bowdoin College and Vanderbilt University and was a 2021–2022 Mandel Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Her research examines how sound mediates Holocaust memory, antisemitism, racial violence, and contemporary politics. She has published in Sound Studies and Yuval, guest edited Sounding Out! on “Hate and NonHuman Listening,” and has forthcoming work in the Journal of the Society for American Music and Music and Politics. She has organized national scholarly initiatives, including the 2025 roundtable “Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis,” and represented UCLA at the Eradicate Global Hate Summit. She is a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University’s Virtual Speakers Bureau and has been an invited educator at two of its regional institutes. She currently edits ISH’s public-facing blog.

Her first book, Sounding Hate: Sonic Politics in the Age of Platforms and AI, is in progress. Her second, Sounding the Holocaust in Film (Indiana University Press), is forthcoming.