Kathryn Agnes Huether is 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 the Postdoctoral Research Associate in antisemitism studies with UCLA’s Initiative to Study Hate and was a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She holds a PhD in Musicology from the University of Minnesota with a graduate minor in cultural studies, and a master’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Her interdisciplinary research examines how sound, media, and emerging technologies shape cultures of hate and remembrance, with particular attention to Holocaust memory, antisemitism, digital extremism, and artificial intelligence. Her work brings together digital humanities, sound studies, Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and musicology and has appeared in Sound Studies, the Journal of the Society for American Music, Music & Politics, and other scholarly publications. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hate Studies and is a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern's (HEFNU) Virtual Speakers Bureau, which connects Holocaust scholars with classrooms and educational communities across the United States.
Her current book projects are Sounding Hate: Sonic Politics in the Age of Platforms and AI and Sounding the Holocaust in Film.
Publications
How to: Never Forget: Holocaust Memory on the Platform Age, Queering Heritage, Affective Platforms, and the Labor of Memory
Sonic Contagion and the Typologies of Hate on TikTok
The Violin as Archive: Genealogies of Sound and Memory in Holocaust Film
Hate and Non-Human Listening: An Introduction
Pre-Mediation and the Crisis of Experiential Memorialization: Listening to the Nova Festival Exhibition
Reorienting perspectives: sonic possibilities of the preserved survivor voice in USHMM’s longitudinal First Person program
Presentations
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture
Ohio State University
Futures of Holocaust Memory: Ethical and Technological Challenges
Association for Jewish Studies 58th Annual Conference
Sounding Traumatic Memory
Lessons and Legacies XVII HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)continuities
Artificial Witness: AI and the Politics of Trust
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Epistemic Coherence
AI and Musical Creativity
Co-Creativity in Music, Sound, and AI, UC Riverside
2026 BKI Impact Symposium, "Toward a Better AI?: Can AI combat hate with kindness?"
UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and Initiative to Study Hate
From Archive to Platform: Sonic Framings and (Re)Framings of Holocaust Images
32nd International Conference of Europeanists
Symposium on Sound and Hate Studies
UCLA Initiative to Study Hate and the Herb Alpert School of Music
Act of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-Survivor World
Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, Regional Institute
Digital Preservation or Digital Erosion?: The Ethics of Representing Anne Frank in AI
Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Age, POLIN Museum of Jewish Heritage, Warsaw, Poland