Christensen collects best book award

Lawrence O. Christensen

Lawrence O. Christensen, distinguished teaching professor emeritus of history at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is the winner of the Curators' Award for Scholarly Excellence. The award is given to the faculty author of the most outstanding book published by the University of Missouri Press. It includes a $2,500 stipend. A subcommittee of the University Press Committee recommends the winner.

Christensen has served as a reviewer for many organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. He co-authored A History of Missouri: Volume IV, 1875 to 1919, also issued by the University of Missouri Press.

Christensen, who co-wrote a history of the Rolla campus, has received several campus teaching awards from UM-Rolla, as well as the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also chaired or served on a wide variety of campus committees. He currently serves as president of the Board of Trustees of the State Historical Society of Missouri.

The winning book, Dictionary of Missouri Biography, which Christensen co-edited, includes biographies of 724 individuals who helped shape Missouri and national history.

All the individuals were either Missouri-born or through their lives touched the state in a significant way. The work covers the entire history of Missouri and illustrates the state's rich cultural, racial and ethnic diversity.

Christensen received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Northeast Missouri State University in 1960 and 1962, respectively, and his doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972.

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