Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born 3 August 1976) is Livingston Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago.She graduated from Swarthmore College, and from the University of Michigan with a PhD.
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.
She is a current MacArthur Fellow, which was awarded in 2014.
In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.