Mary O. Furner
Mary O. Furner is an American historian.
Life
She graduated from Northwestern University, with a Ph.D., in 1972. Her monograph, Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905 , won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award in 1973.She is Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Awards
- 1973 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
- 1982 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow
- 1988-89 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
- 2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
Works
- Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Social Investigation In History And Theory. Modern Intellectual History / Volume 6 / Issue 01 / April 2009, pp 147 – 170 DOI: 10.1017/S14“Defining the Public Good in the U.S. Gilded Age, 1883-1898: ‘Freedom of Contract’ versus ‘Internal Police’ in the Tortured History of Employment Law and Policy,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17:2 :1-35 79244308001972, Published online: 05 March 2009
- “Ideas, Interdependencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias’s Work as a Window on U.S. History,” Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture, eds. Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voelz
- “Defining the Public Good in the U.S. Gilded Age, 1883-1898: ‘Freedom of Contract’ versus ‘Internal Police’ in the Tortured History of Employment Law and Policy,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17:2 :1-35