Tara Zahra | |
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Born | August 3, 1976 |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Education | Swarthmore College University of Michigan |
Academic work | |
Discipline | East European History |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
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. [1]
A graduate of Swarthmore College, [2] Zahra received her PhD from the University of Michigan. [3] 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. [4] [5]
Zahra was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. [6] [7] [8] [9] In 2017,she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [10]