Tara Zahra
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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]
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Born | (1976-08-03) August 3, 1976 (age 47) |
Nationality | American |
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Alma mater | University of Michigan Swarthmore College |
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Discipline | East European History |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
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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]