Lucy Salyer

Lucy Salyer
PROFESSOR
History
Justice Studies
Phone: (603) 862-3021
Office: History, Horton Social Science Center Rm 410, Durham, NH 03824
Website: Full profile: FindScholars@UNH
Lucy Salyer

Education

  • Ph.D., Law and Legal Studies Related, University of California - Berkeley
  • M.A., Law and Legal Studies Related, University of California - Berkeley
  • B.A., History, University of California - San Diego

Research Interests

  • American legal history
  • Progressive era; race, ethnicity, and immigration

Courses Taught

  • COLA 653: Intro to British Culture
  • COLA 657: Justice Studies Budapest Prog
  • COLA 670: The London Project
  • HIST 406: History of Modern US
  • HIST 498: Expl/Before the Muslim Ban
  • HIST 509: Law in American Life
  • HIST 609/809: SpcTop/Int'l Law&Human Rights
  • HIST 615/815: Rise of Modern US
  • HIST 797: Collq/MigrantsRefugeesModAmer.
  • HIST 940: Read/Modern American History
  • HIST 990: Research Sem Modern Amer Hist
  • JUST 650: Spc Stdy/Comp Justice Systems
  • JUST 651: Field Stdy/Hungarian Just Syst

Selected Publications

Salyer, L. E. (2018). Under the Starry Flag How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis Over Citizenship. Belknap Press.

Salyer, L. E. (2017). The Fenian Spirit of John Warren. Clonakilty Historical & Archaelogical Journal, 2, 1-27.

Salyer, L. E. (2016). The California Supreme Court in an Age of Reform: 1910-1940. In H. N. Scheiber (Ed.), Constitutional Governance and Judicial Power: The History of the California Supreme Court (pp. 141-243). Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies.

Salyer, L. E. (2004). Baptism by Fire: Race, Military Service, and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1918-1935. Journal of American History, 91(3), 847. doi:10.2307/3662858

Salyer, L. E., & Peffer, G. A. (2001). If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion. The American Historical Review, 106(5), 1813. doi:10.2307/2692818

Salyer, L. E. (2000). Laws Harsh As Tigers Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Univ of North Carolina Press.

Salyer, L. E., & Jr., J. W. E. (1996). The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910.. The Journal of Southern History, 62(4), 826. doi:10.2307/2211176

Salyer, L. E., & Hing, B. O. (1994). Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990.. The Journal of American History, 81(3), 1310. doi:10.2307/2081523

SALYER, L. E. (1991). AUTHORIZED BY NO LAW - THE SAN-FRANCISCO-COMMITTEE-OF-VIGILANCE-OF-1856 AND THE UNITED-STATES-CIRCUIT-COURT-FOR-THE-DISTRICT-COURT-OF-CALIFORNIA - GORDON,JD. JOURNAL OF THE WEST, 30(3), 99. Retrieved from http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/

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