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.
Books in order of publication:
Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948. Cornell University Press – 2008
The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families After World War II. Harvard University Press. – 2011
Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. W. W. Norton. – 2016
Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement. Cornell University Press, 2018.
Against the World : Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. W. W. Norton. – 2023
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