Margaret Pugh O’Mara, Ph.D.Margaret O'Mara is a research scholar at Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the North American West and a faculty member in History at the University of Washington, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on urban history, US and world politics, and globalization. Professor O'Mara received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Northwestern University. She is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005) as well as scholarly and policy publications on high-tech economies, public policy, and suburban development. Professor O'Mara previously served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a political aide and policy analyst. |
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