Tara Zahra

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.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Zahra received her PhD from the University of Michigan. 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.

Zahra was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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

Publications

Zahra, Tara and Leora Auslander, eds. (2018), Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement. Cornell University Press, 2018. .