Margaret O'Mara (born 1970) is an American historian and professor who holds the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington.
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Background
Margaret O'Mara was born Margaret Pugh on November 15, 1970.
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.
Career
From 1994 to 1996, O'Mara served as a policy analyst on the staff of Vice President Al Gore.
O'Mara is a past fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University (2002–7) before joining the University of Washington.
She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Organization of American Historians.
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. She is currently researching America's Gilded Age.