Her interests include: 20th c, political history, urban history, history of capitalism, and history of technology. Professor O'Mara is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005) and Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century (Penn, 2015). Her current book project is a political and social history of the high-tech revolution, titled Silicon Age: High Technology and the Reinvention of the United States (under contract with Penguin Press). O'Mara earned her MA/PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the Clinton White House and served as a contributing researcher at the Brookings Institution.Faculty Page