Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra is Hanna Holborn Gray Professor Professor of History. She is the author of four books related to the history of migration, family, nationalism, and globalization; her most recent book, Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics in Interwar Europe will be published by Norton in January 2023. She was named a Macarthur Fellow in 2014 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2021-22, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tara Zahra is also the Roman Family Director at the University of Chicago's Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society.
She is also a lifelong amateur dancer and has worked as a dance writer and critic. She has been active in efforts to expand the dance curriculum/presence at the University of Chicago since arriving in 2007, most recently serving on the Provost’s Arts Steering Committee from 2017-20.
Events
The Gray Center welcomes director, interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and producer, Robyn Mineko Williams to our SIDEBAR series along with current fellows Meredith Dincolo (professional dancer and dance instructor) and Tara Zahra (Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of History at UChicago) for a conversation about dance as history and how artists and historians might develop new forms of embodied historical and artistic practice.
This new choreographic work by Gray Center Collaborative Fellows Meredith Dincolo (dancer) and Tara Zahra (UChicago historian) engages the potential for bodily movement as a language.
This new choreographic work by dancer Meredith Dincolo, originating from a Gray Center collaboration between Dincolo and UChicago historian Tara Zahra, engages the potential for bodily movement as a language.