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Tara Zahra

  • Title: Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College
  • Education: PhD, University of Michigan
  • Joined UChicago Faculty: 2007
  • tzahra@uchicago.edu

Tara Zahra

Tara Zahra's research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, and humanitarianism. Her latest book, Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars was published by W.W. Norton Press in 2023. With Pieter Judson, she is currently working on a history of the First World War in the Habsburg Empire. Zahra is also the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration and the Making of the Free World (Norton, 2016) and, with Leora Auslander, Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (Cornell, 2018). Her previous books include The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II (Harvard, 2011) and Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands (Cornell, 2008).

Media Contacts

Elizabeth Braun Rush

Executive Director for Strategic Communications, Social Sciences Division

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Expertise

Migration, Modern Europe, Nationalism