Margaret O'Mara

Margaret O'Mara
Margaret O'Mara presenting her book The Code (2019)
Born	Margaret Pugh (1970-11-15) November 15, 1970 (age 55)
Occupations	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 who holds the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington. ^{[3] [4]}

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]

References

1. "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. "America's New Gilded Age". Northwestern Magazine. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
5. "Past Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Scholars | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
6. "Margaret Pugh O'Mara | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
7. "Organization of American Historians: Margaret O'Mara". www.oah.org. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
8. Redden, Molly (19 March 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian.
9. "Washington legislators say it's high time to get rid of daylight saving time | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com.
10. 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.
11. "Facebook Real Estate Binge Shows It Has No Worries About Growth". National Real Estate Investor. September 4, 2018.
12. "Silicon Valley Can't Escape the Business of War". The New York Times.
13. Lohr, Steve (October 17, 2018). "Paul G. Allen, Microsoft's Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65". The New York Times - International Edition.
14. "Apple-FBI Fight Signals A Need For New Political Precedent". NPR Weekend Edition Saturday.
15. Yurieff, Kaya (July 31, 2018). "Amazon HQ2 bid is already paying off for some cities". CNN Wire.
16. "Facebook plans for growth with real estate binge". Finance & Commerce. 4 September 2018.
17. Farley, Glenn (December 14, 2018). "See the vision for Seattle's waterfront without a viaduct". KING-TV .
18. O’Mara, Margaret (6 November 2018). "Opinion | A Warning From Seattle to Amazon's HQ2". The New York Times.
19. O'mara, Margaret (May 2011). "Silicon Valleys". Boom: A Journal of California. 1 (2): 75–81. doi: 10.1525/boom.2011.1.2.75 .
20. O'Mara, Margaret (2010). "Don't Try This at Home". Foreign Policy (181): 149–151. JSTOR   20753997.
21. O'Mara, Margaret (2012). "The Uses of the Foreign Student". Social Science History. 36 (4): 583–615. doi:10.1215/01455532-1717181. JSTOR   23361144.
22. Simmie, James (2006). "Book Review". Urban Studies. 43 (3): 699–700. JSTOR   43198357.
23. Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "Book Review". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 207–209. doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9025-5. S2CID   109631361.
24. 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.
25. 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.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN