Current CoursesFall 2009 (current)Winter 2010 (tentative)
- History 174B
Wealth and Poverty in America (Civil War to World War II) - History 174DR
Directed Readings in the the History of Capitalism, Class, and Inequality. Spring 2010 (tentative)
- History 166A
United States in the Twentieth Century (1900 to 1929) Department FieldsAnnouncementsThere are no announcements Current Graduate Students |
19th and 20th Century U.S.
Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1972
Office: HSSB 3255 Fall 2009 Hours: on leave
Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: furner@history.ucsb.edu
I work on the making of policy knowledge in relation to capitalist development, popular political narratives, and public policy discourses between the mid-19th and the late-20th centuries.
Research and Teaching Interests- 19th and 20th Century U. S.
- History of Public Policy
- U. S. Public Philosophy and Political Culture
- History of Social Thought
- Political Economy
Current Projects- The Public and Its Limits: Statism and Anti-Statism in the American Political Tradition, 1880-1950
- "Failed Expectations and Ideological Realignment in the Old and New Gilded Ages"
Selected Publications- “From ‘State Interference’ to the ‘Return to the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New"
Toward a New Theory of Regulation, eds. Edward Balleisen & David Moss (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming),
- "Inqiring Minds Want to Know: Social Investigation in History and Theory"
Modern Intellectual History 6:1 (2009):147-70
- “Structure and Virtue in United States Political Economy”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27:1 (2005): 1-27
- “Social Scientists and the State”
Intellectuals and Political Life, eds. Leon Fink et al. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996) pp. 145-81
- “The Republican Tradition and the New Liberalism: Social Investigation, State Building, and Social Learning in the Gilded Age”
The State and Social Investigation in Britain and the United States, eds. Michael J. Lacey and Mary O. Furner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.171-241
- "Knowing Capitalism: Public Investigation of the Labor Question in the Long Progressive Era”
The State and Economic Knowledge: The American and British Experience, eds. Mary O. Furner and Barry Supple (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) pp. 241-86
- Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science 1865-1905
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975) ACLS History E-Book Project, 2002
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses- History 17B: The American People (Sectional Crisis through Progressivism)
- History 165: America in the Gilded Age, 1876 to 1900
- History 166A: United States in the Twentieth Century (1900 to 1929)
- History 166B: United States in the Twentieth Century (1930 to 1959)
- History 166P: Proseminar in Twentieth-Century United States History
- History 174B: Wealth and Poverty in America (Civil War to World War II)
- History 174DR: Directed Readings on Wealth and Poverty
- History 200AM: Historical Literature: America
- History 201AM: Advanced Historical Literature: America
- History 218C: Seminar in Policy History
- History 272A-B: Seminar in American Political and Intellectual History
- History 291A-B: Seminar on Knowledge and Policy, Institutions and Power
Honors and Professional Activities- James Tobin Project on Rethinking Economic Regulation
Study Group for A New Political Narrative for the Post-Crisis U.S.
- Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, 2007
- Distinguished Lecturer, History of Economics Society, 2005
- NEH Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1988-89
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow, 1982
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