Zhi Qing Denise Lim
Main Focus
- Social History of the British Empire in Asia
- Legal History of the British Empire in Asia
- Deviance
- Mobility
- Colonial Singapore
Curriculum Vitae
Since May 2026
Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Aug 2021–Apr 2026
Doctoral researcher and research assistant at the Professorship for the History of the Modern World, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jan–June 2021
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow, National Library Board, Singapore
July 2018–May 2021
Master of Arts in Global and Interdisciplinary History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Oct 2017–July 2018
Research Assistant at the Department of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Aug 2013–May 2017
Bachelor of Arts in History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Other
Feb–June 2024
Lecturer at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich. Course title: ‘Deviance: Transgressions and Taboo in the Colonial World, ca. 1800-1940’
2020
Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship, National Library Board, Singapore
2018–2020
NTU Research Scholarship, Nanyang Technological University
2016
NTU President Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University