Tara Zahra

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 49)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Education	Swarthmore College University of Michigan
Academic work
Discipline	East European History
Institutions	University 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]

Other awards

• 2009 Czechoslovak Studies Association Prize
• 2009 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize
• 2009 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize
• 2011 Laura Shannon Prize, Kidnapped Souls
• 2012 Radomír Luža Prize
• 2012 George Louis Beer Prize, The Lost Children^[11]

Publications

• 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]