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.
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.