Christine Heyrman

• Robert W. and Shirley P. Grimble Professor of American History
  
  
• E-mail: cheyrman@udel.edu
• Phone: (302) 831-2373
• Office: 204 John Munroe Hall
  
  
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Christine Leigh Heyrman specializes in early American social and cultural history. She received her B.A. from Macalester College in 1971 and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1977. Her publications include Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 and Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt . Her current research focuses on a book-length study of the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East.