Cynthia Houng

Cynthia Houng is a Doctoral Candidate in History at Princeton University. She studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, and art history at Stanford University. Her work sits at the intersection of art, economic, and intellectual history. Her dissertation examines the ways in which approaches to knowledge making and epistemology, as well as to modalities of judgment and valuation, have shaped and reshaped approaches to connoisseurship and aesthetics, as well as economic theory and analysis.