Margaret O'Mara

Margaret O'Mara holds the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History at the University of Washington. She is the author of THE CODE: SILICON VALLEY AND THE REMAKING OF AMERICA; PIVOTAL TUESDAYS: FOUR ELECTIONS THAT SHAPED THE TWENTIETH CENTURY and CITIES OF KNOWLEDGE: COLD WAR SCIENCE AND THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT SILICON VALLEY. She also is an editor of the POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN MODERN AMERICA series at Princeton University Press. Her writing and historical commentary appear regularly in national and international media outlets and she is a former contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, her BA from Northwestern University and she is an alumna of Little Rock Central High School. She lives in Mercer Island, Washington.