Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born August 3, 1976) is an American academic who is the ''

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Professor'' of

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History at the

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. A graduate of

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, Zahra received her PhD from the

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. 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 The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

in 2014. In 2017, she was elected to the

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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 AHA Prize in European International History, formerly named 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 S ...

, ''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. . *

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