Margaret O'Mara

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.

Background Margaret O'Mara was born Margaret Pugh on November 15, 1970.

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. ) 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, The American Pageant (with Thomas A. Bailey, David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen), 18th edition, Cengage, 2024,

Private life O'Mara is married to Healthentic CEO and President Jeffery Lawrence O'Mara.