Margaret O'Mara

Margaret O'Mara (born 1970^[1][2]) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington.^[3]

Margaret O'Mara
Margaret O'Mara presenting her book The Code (2019)
Born	Margaret Pugh (1970-11-15) November 15, 1970 (age 54)
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	historian and professor at University of Washington
Academic background
Education	Northwestern University
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Website	http://www.margaretomara.com

Background

Margaret O'Mara was born Margaret Pugh on November 15, 1970.^[1]

O'Mara received her B.A. from Northwestern University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.^[1]

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.^[4] She was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University (2002-7) before joining the University of Washington.^[5]

She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians.^[6]

Her expertise includes the relations between technology and politics,^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]} and between technology companies and urban development.^[15][16][17] She has written research papers about Silicon Valley^[18][19] and American presidents.^[20]

Bibliography

• Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, Princeton University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780691117164 (reviews^[21][22])
• Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, ISBN 9780812247466 (reviews^[23][24])
• 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]