Margaret O'Mara

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Margaret O'Mara
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Margaret O'Mara presenting her book The Code (2019)
Born
Margaret Pugh

(1970-11-15) November 15, 1970 (age 54)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)historian and professor at University of Washington
Academic background
Education Northwestern University
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Website http://www.margaretomara.com

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

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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

Private life

O'Mara is married to Healthentic CEO and President Jeffery Lawrence O'Mara. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "WEDDINGS: Margaret Pugh, Jeffrey O'Mara". The New York Times . July 16, 2000.
  2. ↑ Gary Nicholls [@garyaknichols] (15 Nov 2015). "@margaretomara happy birthday!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ "Margaret O'Mara | Department of History | University of Washington". history.washington.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Past Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Scholars | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "Margaret Pugh O'Mara | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  6. ↑ "Organization of American Historians: Margaret O'Mara". www.oah.org. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
  7. ↑ Redden, Molly (19 March 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ "Washington legislators say it's high time to get rid of daylight saving time | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com.
  9. ↑ Swartz, Jon; Weise, Elizabeth (August 14, 2017). "Fired ex-Googler becomes alt-right darling; James Damore has become a martyr in Silicon Valley". USA Today.
  10. ↑ "Facebook Real Estate Binge Shows It Has No Worries About Growth". National Real Estate Investor. September 4, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Silicon Valley Can't Escape the Business of War". The New York Times.
  12. ↑ Lohr, Steve (October 17, 2018). "Paul G. Allen, Microsoft's Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65". The New York Times - International Edition.
  13. ↑ "Apple-FBI Fight Signals A Need For New Political Precedent". NPR Weekend Edition Saturday.
  14. ↑ Yurieff, Kaya (July 31, 2018). "Amazon HQ2 bid is already paying off for some cities". CNN Wire.
  15. ↑ "Facebook plans for growth with real estate binge". Finance & Commerce. 4 September 2018.
  16. ↑ Farley, Glenn (December 14, 2018). "See the vision for Seattle's waterfront without a viaduct". KING-TV .
  17. ↑ O’Mara, Margaret (6 November 2018). "Opinion | A Warning From Seattle to Amazon's HQ2". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ O'mara, Margaret (May 2011). "Silicon Valleys". Boom: A Journal of California. 1 (2): 75–81. doi: 10.1525/boom.2011.1.2.75 .
  19. ↑ O'Mara, Margaret (2010). "Don't Try This at Home". Foreign Policy (181): 149–151. JSTOR   20753997.
  20. ↑ O'Mara, Margaret (2012). "The Uses of the Foreign Student". Social Science History. 36 (4): 583–615. doi:10.1215/01455532-1717181. JSTOR   23361144.
  21. ↑ Simmie, James (2006). "Book Review". Urban Studies. 43 (3): 699–700. JSTOR   43198357.
  22. ↑ Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "Book Review". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 207–209. doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9025-5. S2CID   109631361.
  23. ↑ Brownell, Kathryn Cramer (March 15, 2017). "Margaret O'Mara, Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, $34.95). Pp. 280. ISBN 978 0 8122 4746 6". Journal of American Studies. 51 (2). doi:10.1017/S0021875817000238. ISSN   1469-5154. S2CID   148765293.
  24. ↑ Johnson, Robert David (1 April 2017). "Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer, editors. America at the Ballot Box: Elections and Political History; Margaret O'Mara. Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century". The American Historical Review. 122 (2): 536–537. doi:10.1093/ahr/122.2.536. ISSN   0002-8762.
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