Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra | |
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| 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 |
Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born 3 August 1976) is Livingston Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago.[1]
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] She is a current MacArthur Fellow, which 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 0393078019. OCLC 909974344.
References
- ^ "Tara Zahra". uchicago.edu.
- ^ "AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra". American Historical Association.
- ^ "Tara Zahra". American Academy in Berlin.
- ^ "Tara Zahra". eui.eu.
- ^ "Tara Zahra". macfound.org.
- ^ "Professor, lawyer with Pittsburgh ties earn MacArthur 'genius grants'". TribLIVE.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Chicago Tribune". chicagotribune.com.
- ^ "Five Faculty Members Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.chicagomaroon.com. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
- ^ "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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