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
* * * (6th ed., 2007) * ''American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam'' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. .

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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 {{US-historian-stub