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

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, and her

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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