Jared McBride

Jared McBride, an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of history, is an expert on the history of Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. 

His research interests include borderland studies, nationalist movements, mass violence and genocide, the Holocaust, interethnic conflict and war crimes prosecution. 

He is currently completing a book manuscript on interethnic violence in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine from 1941 to 1944. 

McBride has held postdoctoral positions at the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California, the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Columbia University. 

His work has appeared in a number of print and online publications, including the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, Israel’s Haaretz, openDemocracy and Tablet magazine.