Summary
Margaret O'Mara (born 1970[1][2]) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington.[3]
Margaret O'Mara | |
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 Margaret O'Mara presenting her book The Code (2019) | |
| Born | Margaret Pugh November 15, 1970 |
| 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 edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
O'Mara is married to Healthentic CEO and President Jeffery Lawrence O'Mara.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e "WEDDINGS: Margaret Pugh, Jeffrey O'Mara". The New York Times. July 16, 2000.
- ^ Gary Nicholls [@garyaknichols] (November 15, 2015). "@margaretomara happy birthday!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Margaret O'Mara | Department of History | University of Washington". history.washington.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Past Fellows, Research Affiliates, and Visiting Scholars | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ "Margaret Pugh O'Mara | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
- ^ "Organization of American Historians: Margaret O'Mara". www.oah.org. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^ Redden, Molly (19 March 2016). "Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?". The Guardian.
- ^ "Washington legislators say it's high time to get rid of daylight saving time | The Spokesman-Review". www.spokesman.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bloomberg (September 4, 2018). "Facebook Real Estate Binge Shows It Has No Worries About Growth". National Real Estate Investor.
- ^ "Silicon Valley Can't Escape the Business of War". The New York Times.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (October 17, 2018). "Paul G. Allen, Microsoft's Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65". The New York Times - International Edition.
- ^ "Apple-FBI Fight Signals A Need For New Political Precedent". NPR Weekend Edition Saturday.
- ^ Yurieff, Kaya (July 31, 2018). "Amazon HQ2 bid is already paying off for some cities". CNN Wire.
- ^ News, Bloomberg (4 September 2018). "Facebook plans for growth with real estate binge". Finance & Commerce.
{{cite web}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ Farley, Glenn (December 14, 2018). "See the vision for Seattle's waterfront without a viaduct". KING-TV.
- ^ O’Mara, Margaret (6 November 2018). "Opinion | A Warning From Seattle to Amazon's HQ2". The New York Times.
- ^ O'mara, Margaret (May 2011). "Silicon Valleys". Boom: A Journal of California. 1 (2): 75–81. doi:10.1525/boom.2011.1.2.75.
- ^ O'Mara, Margaret (2010). "Don't Try This at Home". Foreign Policy (181): 149–151. JSTOR 20753997.
- ^ O'Mara, Margaret (2012). "The Uses of the Foreign Student". Social Science History. 36 (4): 583–615. doi:10.1215/01455532-1717181. JSTOR 23361144.
- ^ Simmie, James (2006). "Book Review". Urban Studies. 43 (3): 699–700. JSTOR 43198357.
- ^ Hall, Joshua C. (2007). "Book Review". Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 20 (3): 207–209. doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9025-5. S2CID 109631361.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 edit
- Appearances on C-SPAN