Director, Center for Economic Education, Centenary College
Top 5 Career Highlights
To summarize, Christensen cites these as the best memories of his teaching career:
• Interactions with his students.
• His broad repertoire of courses, which has given him a great appreciation for and understanding of his discipline.
• Being selected in 1981 as a postdoctoral fellow in Applied Economics at the University of Chicago.
• Doing a study guide in 1988 with Dr. David Hoaas to accompany one of the time’s bestselling books on the principles of economics.
• Having an article published in the Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics in 1995.
Centenary Runs in the Family
Not only does Christensen’s wife and valued colleague, Dr. Betsy Rankin, work at Centenary, but their children and children-in-law all graduated from the Maroon-and-White.
The legacy includes daughter Annelise Christensen Clifton ’92, son Josh Christensen ’98, son-in-law Warren Clifton ’91 and daughter-in-law Christi Carlton Christensen ’96