Professor Houh was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, which is the University of Cincinnati’s highest teaching honor.
Professor Houh was inducted into the University’s Fellows of the Graduate School.
Professor Houh was elected to chair the Contract Compliance & Enforcement Committee of UC’s Chapter of the Association of American University Professors.
Professor Houh was invited to serve a University of Cincinnati committee that will study the University’s relationship to slavery as part of the University of Virginia’s Universities Studying Slavery consortium.
In late May, Professor Houh will speak on a panel called, “Academic Freedom and Expressive Freedoms in a Post-Truth Era,” at the joint Northeast People of Color/Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty 2018 Conference, at Albany Law School in New York.
Professor Houh moderated a panel, “Critical Race Theory and Racial Formation,” as part of a conference—co-organized by the Department of European Studies in University of Cincinnati’s College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Law’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice (which Houh co-directs with Professors Kalsem and Moore)—called Transatlantic Approaches to Racial Equality. This international conference, held on April 12-13 at UC’s African American Cultural & Resource Center, was made possible with generous support from UC’s Taft Research Center, Office of Equity, Inclusion & Community Impact, and Office of Graduate Programs.
In February, Professor Houh gave a talk as part of a panel on “Contract Law and Discrimination,” at the 13th Annual International Conference on Contracts, held this year at Barry University in Orlando, Florida.