Lucy E. Salyer is a professor of history at the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...

known for her work on the history of

immigration law Immigration law refers to the national statutes, regulations Regulation is the management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends. In systems theory, these types of rules exist in various fields of biology and society, but the ...

in the United States. She authored ''Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law'', which won the Theodore Saloutos Book Award for the best book on immigration history. ''Harsh as Tigers'' explores the origin of American immigration law in the late 19th and early 20th century. ''Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship'' (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018) explores the concept of legal expatriation, the idea that an individual can legally cease to be a citizen of their birth state by immigrating to and becoming a citizen of a different state.

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Living people University of New Hampshire faculty 21st-century American historians American women historians 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub