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 Award2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt1988-89 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow1982 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars FellowMary 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)