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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