Tara Zahra is Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium and Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, and humanitarianism. She is the author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars (Norton, 2023), 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).

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