Lucy E. Salyer is a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire known for her work on the history of immigration law 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.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Harsh as Tigers explores the origin of American immigration law in the late 19th and early 20th century.^[6]

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.^[7]

Selected works

• Salyer, Lucy E. (2000). Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6431-9.
• Salyer, Lucy E. (2018). Under the Starry Flag: How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-05763-0.
• Salyer, Lucy E. (1 December 2004). "Baptism by Fire: Race, Military Service, and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1918-1935". Journal of American History. 91 (3): 847–876. doi:10.2307/3662858. JSTOR 3662858.
• Salyer, Lucy E. (1991). "The Constitutive Nature of Law in American History". Legal Studies Forum. 15 (1): 61–64.
• Salyer, Lucy E. (2021). "Reconstructing the Immigrant: The Naturalization Act of 1870 in Global Perspective". The Journal of the Civil War Era. 11 (3): 382–405. doi:10.1353/cwe.2021.0050. S2CID 239728064. Project MUSE 803637.
• Salyer, Lucy E. (1 April 2022). "A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in An Age of Restriction, 1924–1965". Journal of American Ethnic History. 41 (3): 118–120. doi:10.5406/19364695.41.3.07. S2CID 247963489.