Tara Zahra
Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born August 3, 1976) is an American academic who is a 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] In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9]
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[10]
- 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.
- 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.
References
- "Tara Zahra". uchicago.edu.
- "AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra". American Historical Association.
- "Tara Zahra". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- "Tara Zahra". eui.eu.
- "Tara Zahra". macfound.org.
- Susie Allen and Jann Ingmire. "UChicago historian Tara Zahra named 2014 MacArthur Fellow". uchicago.edu.
- "A cartoonist, a composer, a criminal defense lawyer: See the new 'genius grant' winners". chicagobusiness.com. September 16, 2014.
- "Chicago Tribune". chicagotribune.com.
- "Five Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.chicagomaroon.com. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
- "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
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