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Portrait of Seulgie Claire Lim

Seulgie Claire Lim

Granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of politics.

Her research focuses on gender equality; women’s political movement and participation in West Africa, specifically in Senegal; and African feminism and the interactions between politics and Islam. Lim grew up in Mauritania in West Africa, where her family moved from South Korea.

Lim received her Ph.D. in political science from Boston University with a certificate in African studies in May 2020 and began working at Bates that fall. She has been the representative of the Emerging Scholars Network for the African Studies Association Board of Directors since 2024. Lim’s courses include “Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Gender, Power, and Politics.” 

  • Redefining Gender Equality: A Senegalese Conversation with Islam

    Redefining Gender Equality: A Senegalese Conversation with Islam

  • Balancing Acts: Gender Parity Law and Cultural Boundaries in Senegal

    Balancing Acts: Gender Parity Law and Cultural Boundaries in Senegal

  • Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the Relationship as Seen Through Mali and Senegal

    Islam and Politics in West Africa: Intricacies of the Relationship as Seen Through Mali and Senegal

  • The Absence of Secularism in Senegal

    The Absence of Secularism in Senegal

  • African Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool

    African Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool

  • Fatou Sow

    Fatou Sow

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