Tara Zahra
American historian
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| Intro | American historian | |
| A.K.A. | Tara Elizabeth Zahra | |
| A.K.A. | Tara Elizabeth Zahra | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Actor Journalist Writer Television actor Non-fiction writer Opinion journalist Historian | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Journalism Literature Social science | |
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| Birth | 1976 | |
| Age | 49 years |
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Biography
Tara Zahra is a professor of East European History at the University of Chicago.
She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from the University of Michigan 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.
She is a current MacArthur Fellow, which was awarded in 2014.
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.