Julian Lim
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Julian Lim is an associate professor of History at Arizona State University. She holds a bachelor's degree in literature and a law degree from UC Berkeley, and received her doctorate in history from Cornell University. Trained in history and law, she focuses on immigration, borders, and race, and has taught in both history department and law school settings.
Lim's award-winning first book, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), examines the history of diverse immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the development of immigration policy and law on both sides of the border. The book received the David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize for the best book on the American Southwest; the Outstanding Achievement in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies; the Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research; and an Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for the best book on U.S. immigration history.
She has published articles on race, immigration and refugee law, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the Pacific Historical Review, the California Law Review, and the U.C. Irvine Law Review. She is also the recipient of various research and travel awards and fellowships. She is currently working on her second book: an examination of U.S. territorial control and border expansions from the 1880s to the 1910s, and the correlating development of the plenary power doctrine in U.S. immigration law.
- Ph.D. History, Cornell University, Department of History 2013
- J.D. University of California-Berkeley School of Law 2003
- B.A. English Literature, University of California-Berkeley 1998
U.S.-Mexico Border
Immigration
Frontiers and Borderlands
Comparative Race Relations
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. History
Race and Law
BOOKS:
- Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, December 2017)
- Winner, 2019 Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History, Association for Asian American Studies
- Winner, 2019 Humanities Book Award, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University
- Winner, 2018 David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Western History Association
- Honorable Mention, 2018 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for Best Book on U.S. Immigration History, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
ARTICLES:
- “Immigration, Plenary Powers, and Sovereignty Talk: Then and Now,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.(7,000 words) (forthcoming, manuscript submitted)
- “Immigrants and the State: Assessing the Promise and Perils of U.S. Immigration Legislation,” co-authored with Maddalena Marinari, Modern American History 2 (forthcoming 2018), 1-4.
- “A Shadow on the Past: Teaching and Studying Migration and Borders in the Age of Trump,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming).
- “Reconceptualizing Asian Pacific American Identity at the Margins,” UC Irvine Law Review 3:4 (2014): 1151-77.
- “Immigration, Asylum, and Citizenship: A More Holistic Approach,” California Law Review 101:4 (2013): 1013-77.
- “Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese-Mexican Relations in the Borderlands,” Pacific Historical Review 79:1 (2010): 50-85.
- “Tongue Tied in the Market: The Relevance of Contract Law to Racial-Language Minorities,” California Law Review 91 (2003): 579-620.
Op-eds and Public Writings:
- “A ‘Nation of Immigrants’ at the Border,” Borderlands History Blog, August 22, 2017, available at https://borderlandshistory.org/2017/08/22/summer-series-a-nation-of-immigrants-at-the-border/. (invited)
- “We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban’s Place in History,” (contributor) Public Radio International, February 1, 2017, available at https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-01/we-ve-been-here-historians-annotate-and-analyze-immigration-bans-place-history.
- “#ImmigrationSyllabus,” (organizer and contributor) (public syllabus providing essential topics, readings, and multimedia to provide historical context to current immigration debates), January 26, 2017, available at http://immigrationsyllabus.umn.edu.
- “The Supreme Court Ruled Wrong, Then Right, on Japanese American Internment.” Zócalo Public Square, January 18, 2017, available at http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/01/18/supreme-court-ruled-wrong-right-japanese-american-internment/ideas/nexus/.
CURRENT WORKS IN PROGRESS:
- Book: Aliens and Empire: Immigration and the Borders of U.S. Expansion
- Article: “Monogamous Borders: Race, Religion, and the Anti-Polygamy Bar in U.S. Immigration Law”
- Article: “Plenary Powers: Indians and Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1870-1910”
Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
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HST 591 | Seminar |
HST 330 | Historical Thinking |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
HST 325 | Immigration & Ethnicity in US |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 599 | Thesis |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 598 | Special Topics |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 799 | Dissertation |
2019 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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HST 325 | Immigration & Ethnicity in US |
HST 110 | United States Since 1865 |
HST 494 | Special Topics |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |