Julian Lim

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. 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. 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.