Houh is the Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts at the University of Cincinnati College of Law (UC Law) and has been teaching contracts, commercial law and critical race theory since 2003. There, she has twice won the Goldman Prize for Teaching Excellence and also serves as co-director of the College’s Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Law, Houh was an assistant professor of law at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. A graduate of Brown University, Houh earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a founding member and article editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. After law school, Houh served as law clerk to the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, and then as a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and later as a commercial litigation associate at Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, PLC in Detroit. Houh’s past and current scholarship focuses on the interplay between contract law, critical race theory and socioeconomic inequality. Additionally, her recent research looks at how participatory action research methods can be used to engage in critical race/feminist praxis, by exploring the raced and gendered nature of the fringe economy.
