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.
Awards
- 1998 Bancroft Prize
- 2016 Francis Parkman Prize
Works
- American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015..