Margaret O'Mara (born 1970) is an American historian and professor at the

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Background

Margaret O'Mara was born Margaret Pugh on November 15, 1970. O'Mara received her B.A. from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

, and her

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from the

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Career

From 1994 to 1996, O'Mara served as a policy analyst on the staff of Vice President

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. O'Mara is a past fellow of the

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. She was an assistant professor in the Department of History at

(2002-7) before joining the

. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the

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. Her expertise includes the relations between technology and politics, and between technology companies and urban development. She has written research papers about Silicon Valley and American presidents.

Bibliography

* ''Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley'', Princeton University Press, 2005, (reviews) * ''Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, (reviews) * ''The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America'', Penguin Random House, 2019,

Private life

O'Mara is married to Healthentic CEO and President Jeffery Lawrence O'Mara.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:OMara, Margaret 1970 births Living people 21st-century American historians American women historians University of Washington faculty Northwestern University alumni 21st-century American women writers Stanford University fellows Historians of technology