Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born August 3, 1976) is an American academic who is the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago.[1]

Tara Zahra
Born (1976-08-03) August 3, 1976 (age 47)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Swarthmore College
Academic work
DisciplineEast European History
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

A graduate of Swarthmore College,[2] Zahra received her PhD from the University of Michigan.[3] She has concentrated her studies on sociohistorical models and archival research on family, nation, and ethnicity in the twentieth century leading to an integrative approach across national borders.[4][5]

Zahra was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.[6][7][8][9] In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[10]

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Publications edit

  • Zahra, Tara (2008). Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801446283. OCLC 164802970. [12]
  • Zahra, Tara (2011). The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families After World War II. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674048249. OCLC 676725391.
  • Zahra, Tara (2016). Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393078015. OCLC 909974344.
  • Zahra, Tara and Leora Auslander, eds. (2018), Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement. Cornell University Press, 2018. ISBN 9781501720093.
  • Zahra, Tara (2023). Against the World : Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-65196-6. OCLC 1320809289.[13][14][15]

References edit

  1. ^ "Tara Zahra". uchicago.edu.
  2. ^ "Tara Zahra '98". Swarthmore College. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  3. ^ "AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra". American Historical Association.
  4. ^ "Tara Zahra". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  5. ^ "Tara Zahra". eui.eu.
  6. ^ "Tara Zahra". macfound.org.
  7. ^ Susie Allen and Jann Ingmire. "UChicago historian Tara Zahra named 2014 MacArthur Fellow". uchicago.edu.
  8. ^ "A cartoonist, a composer, a criminal defense lawyer: See the new 'genius grant' winners". chicagobusiness.com. September 16, 2014.
  9. ^ "Chicago Tribune". chicagotribune.com.
  10. ^ "Five Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.chicagomaroon.com. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  11. ^ "George Louis Beer Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  12. ^ "Cohen on Zahra, 'Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948' | Habsburg | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  13. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (January 25, 2023). "Globalization's Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  14. ^ Mazower, Mark (April 18, 2023). "Keeping the World at Bay". Foreign Affairs. No. May/June 2023. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  15. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (January 20, 2023). "'Against the World' Review: Globalization and Its Discontents". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

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