She is adjunct associate professor at Columbia University in New York[1] and serves on the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Frühauf's teaching and research draw upon diverse methods and perspectives in scholarship to forge a broad and interdisciplinary musicology centered around history, performance, and ethnography.
[7] Her book Transcending Dystopia, Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Postwar Germany (Oxford University Press, 2021) was a finalist of the 2022 Jordan Schnitzer Awards of the Association for Jewish Studies,[8] her 2023 essay “The Dialectics of Nationalism: Jaromír Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper and Anti-Semitism in Interwar Europe,” published in Cambridge Opera Journal, won the 2024 Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an article in the concert music field.
[9] In 2019, Frühauf has been DAAD Guest Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, where she laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Paul Ben-Haim Center, which is devoted to the study of music before, during, and after Nazism.
[10] In the spring of 2023 Frühauf was a Senior Fellow at the German Historical Institute's Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley, carrying out research on music's intellectual migration.