Tara Zahra

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

Tara Zahra
Born	August 3, 1976
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan Swarthmore College
Academic work
Discipline	East European History
Institutions	University of Chicago

She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from the University of Michigan with a PhD.[2] 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.[3][4] A MacArthur Fellowship was awarded in 2014.[5][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]
• 2014 MacArthur Fellowship

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.
• 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.

References

1. "Tara Zahra". uchicago.edu.
2. "AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra". American Historical Association.
3. "Tara Zahra". American Academy in Berlin.
4. "Tara Zahra". eui.eu.
5. "Tara Zahra". macfound.org.
6. "Professor, lawyer with Pittsburgh ties earn MacArthur 'genius grants'". TribLIVE.com.
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.
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.

External links

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