Jump to content

Tara Zahra

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Tara E. Zahra)

Tara Zahra
Born (1976-08-03) August 3, 1976 (age 48)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Swarthmore College
Academic work
DisciplineEast European History
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

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

[edit]

Publications

[edit]
  • 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]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Tara Zahra". uchicago.edu.
  2. ^ "Tara Zahra '98". Swarthmore College. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  3. ^ "AHA Member Spotlight: Tara Zahra". American Historical Association.
  4. ^ "Tara Zahra". American Academy in Berlin. Archived from the original on May 31, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  5. ^ "Tara Zahra". eui.eu.
  6. ^ "Tara Zahra". macfound.org.
  7. ^ Susie Allen and Jann Ingmire (September 17, 2014). "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. September 16, 2014.
  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.
  12. ^ "Cohen on Zahra, 'Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands 1900-1948' | Habsburg | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  13. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (January 25, 2023). "Globalization's Discontents Were Baked In From the Beginning". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  14. ^ Mazower, Mark (April 18, 2023). "Keeping the World at Bay". Foreign Affairs. No. May/June 2023. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
  15. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (January 20, 2023). "'Against the World' Review: Globalization and Its Discontents". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
[edit]
Stub icon

This biography of an American historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tara_Zahra&oldid=1225898541"