Herman Lim Bin Adam Lim (he/him) is a PhD student in the Committee on the Study of Religion, working primarily on Islam in Southeast Asia and its connections to the wider Indian Ocean littoral. He holds MA degrees in Islamic Studies and Asian Studies from Columbia University and the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, as well as the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. In the past, he has received the generous support of the Aga Khan Fellowship and the East-West Center’s Graduate Degree Fellowship.
Drawing from numerous disciplines, including history, art history, and literature, Herman’s research interests include the conceptualisation of the ‘other-than-human’ in Islamic cosmologies, the interactions between Muslim communities and local ecologies, and the myriad ways Muslims in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago have historically imagined and embodied their own Muslim identities.