Julian Lim
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UC Berkeley School of Law (JD)
Cornell University (PhD)
Julian Lim | |
|---|---|
| Born | San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | UC Berkeley (BA) UC Berkeley School of Law (JD) Cornell University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maria Cristina Garcia |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
Julian Lim is a historian teaching at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on race, sovereignty, and refugee law in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands region.[1] Her first monograph Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands was published in 2017 by the University of North Carolina Press.[2] The text won multiple awards, including the David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize, the Outstanding Achievement in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and the Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research.[3]
Lim was born in the San Francisco Bay Area.[4] She attended UC Berkeley for undergrad and law school. She received her doctorate from Cornell University in 2013, where she was a student of Maria Cristina Garcia and Derek Chang.[4] Her work has focused primarily on analyzing the racialization of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.[5] Lim is an active member in the Western History Association.[6]
