Christine Leigh Heyrman is an American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
.
Life
She graduated from
Macalester College
Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S te ...
in 1971, and from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
with a Ph.D. in 1977.
She is Grimble Professor of American History at the
University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 ma ...
.
Her current research focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820–1860).
Awards
*1998
Bancroft Prize
The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.
It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...
*2016
Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize, named after Francis Parkman, is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year. Its purpose is to promote literary distinction in historical writing. The Society of American ...
Works
Heyrman, Christine Leigh. “The Separation of Church and State from the American Revolution to the Early Republic.” ''Divining America,'' National Humanities Center*
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* (6th ed., 2007)
* ''American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam'' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. .
References
External links
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21st-century American historians
Macalester College alumni
Yale University alumni
University of Delaware faculty
Living people
American women historians
21st-century American women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bancroft Prize winners
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