Tara E. Zahra

Zahra’s work focuses on focuses on the transnational history of Modern Europe; migration; the family; nationalism; and humanitarianism. She is most recently the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration and the Making of the ‘Free World’ (Norton, 2016). Her previous books include The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II (Harvard University Press, 2011), which won the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize for European International History; and Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands (Cornell, 2008). She is currently working on a history of deglobalization in interwar Europe. Macarthur Fellow (2014).