Tara Zahra

Historian
CES Affiliate

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 496-7143
E-Mail: tzahra@uchicago.edu




Biographical Information

Zahra is currently a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Beginning in the fall of 2007 she will be an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Chicago. She is interested in transnational and comparative approaches to the history of continental Europe, especially East Central Europe (Habsburg Empire and Successor States), Germany, and France; nationalism; and the history of childhood, gender, and the family. Her book, entitled Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948, is forthcoming in 2008. Zahra is currently working on a comparative study of national ascription in Alsace-Lorraine and the Bohemian Lands in the aftermath of World War I, as well as a new project on international mobilization around displacement, refugees, and the family in Europe between 1933–1951.