Mary O. Furner

Mary O. Furner is an American historian.

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.

• 1973 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 1988-89 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
• 1982 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow

• Mary O. Furner (July 15, 2009). "Until state's fixed, UC system's in jeopardy". The Sacramento Bee. 
• Mary O. Furner (December 1, 1996). "Antistatism and Government Downsizing". The Urban Institute. 
• Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905. University of Kentucky Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8131-1309-8. 
• Michael James Lacey, Mary O. Furner, eds. (1993). "The republican tradition and the new liberalism: social investigation, state building, and social learning in the Gilded Age". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41638-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=xOKwKZNzbQ0C&pg=PA171. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Mary O. Furner, Barry Supple, eds. (2002). The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experiences. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52315-8.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)