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 The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. She graduated from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as ...

and from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

with a PhD. 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. A MacArthur Fellowship was awarded in 2014. In 2017, she was elected to the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

Other awards

*2009 Czechoslovak Studies Association Prize *2009 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize *2009 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize *2011

Laura Shannon Prize The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies is a $10,000 book prize sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The Laura Shannon Prize is awarded annually to the author of the "best book ...

, ''Kidnapped Souls'' *2012 Radomír Luža Prize *2012

George Louis Beer Prize The George Louis Beer Prize is an award given by the American Historical Association for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United States citizen or permanent resident. The prize was created in 1923 ...

, ''The Lost Children'' * 2014 MacArthur Fellowship

Publications

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

References

External links

"An Interview with Tara Zahra"
''Chicago Journal of History'', Spring 2015 Living people University of Chicago faculty MacArthur Fellows Swarthmore College alumni University of Michigan alumni American women historians 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American historians 1976 births Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences {{US-historian-stub