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 (University of Kentucky Press), 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 (April 2018):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 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011)
• “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 (April 2018):1-35

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