Christine Leigh Heyrman

Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American historian.

Life
She graduated from Macalester College in 1971, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1977. She is Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).

Awards

 * 1998 Bancroft Prize
 * 2016 Francis Parkman Prize

Works

 * Heyrman, Christine Leigh. “The Separation of Church and State from the American Revolution to the Early Republic.” Divining America, National Humanities Center
 * (6th ed., 2007)
 * American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0-809-02398-1.
 * (6th ed., 2007)
 * American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. ISBN 978-0-809-02398-1.