Tara Zahra Explained

Tara Zahra
Birth Date:	3 August 1976
Nationality:	American
Discipline:	East European History
Workplaces:	University of Chicago
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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]

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

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

External links

• "An Interview with Tara Zahra", Chicago Journal of History, Spring 2015

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tara Zahra. uchicago.edu.
2. News: Tara Zahra '98 . December 13, 2023 . Swarthmore College.
3. Web site: AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra. American Historical Association.
4. Web site: Tara Zahra. American Academy in Berlin. September 28, 2014. May 31, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160531000756/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/tara-zahra. dead.
5. Web site: Tara Zahra. eui.eu.
6. Web site: Tara Zahra . macfound.org.
7. Web site: Susie Allen and Jann Ingmire . UChicago historian Tara Zahra named 2014 MacArthur Fellow . uchicago.edu. September 17, 2014 .
8. Web site: September 16, 2014 . A cartoonist, a composer, a criminal defense lawyer: See the new 'genius grant' winners . chicagobusiness.com.
9. Web site: Chicago Tribune . chicagotribune.com.
10. Web site: Five Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences . October 12, 2017 . www.chicagomaroon.com . en.
11. Web site: George Louis Beer Prize Recipients . . December 24, 2017.
12. Web site: Cohen on Zahra, 'Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948' Habsburg H-Net . 2023-06-26 . networks.h-net.org.
13. News: Szalai . Jennifer . 2023-01-25 . Globalization's Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-26 . 0362-4331.
14. News: Mazower . Mark . 2023-04-18 . Keeping the World at Bay . en-US . Foreign Affairs . May/June 2023 . 2023-06-26 . 0015-7120.
15. News: Varadarajan . Tunku . 2023-01-20 . 'Against the World' Review: Globalization and Its Discontents . en-US . Wall Street Journal . 2023-06-26 . 0099-9660.