Margaret O'Mara
American historian and professor (born 1970)
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Margaret O'Mara (born 1970[1][2]) is an American historian and professor who holds the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington.[3][4]
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November 15, 1970
Margaret O'Mara | |
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Margaret O'Mara presenting her book The Code (2019) | |
| Born | Margaret Pugh November 15, 1970 |
| Occupations | historian and professor at University of Washington |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Northwestern University |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Website | https://www.margaretomara.com |
Background
Margaret O'Mara was born Margaret Pugh on November 15, 1970.[1]
O'Mara received her B.A. in 1992 from Northwestern University, with majors in English and history, and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.[1][4]
Career
From 1994 to 1996, O'Mara served as a policy analyst on the staff of Vice President Al Gore.[1]
O'Mara is a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.[5] She was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University (2002–7) before joining the University of Washington.[6]
She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians.[7]
Her expertise includes the relations between technology and politics,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and between technology companies and urban development.[16][17][18] She has written research papers about Silicon Valley[19][20] and American presidents.[21] She is currently researching America's Gilded Age.[4]
Bibliography
- Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780691117164 (reviews[22][23])
- Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, ISBN 9780812247466 (reviews[24][25])
- The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America, Penguin Random House, 2019, ISBN 9780399562181
Private life
O'Mara is married to Healthentic CEO and President Jeffery Lawrence O'Mara.[1]