Jared McBride
Jared McBride
Assistant Professor
Email: mcbridejg@ucla.edu
Office: Bunche Hall 5276
Personal WebsiteBiography
Jared McBride is a historian who examines Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century with a focus on nationalist movements, mass violence, interethnic conflict, and war crimes prosecution, related to both the Second World War and Cold War periods. He also has a strong interest in the politics of archival research and access to freedom of information. His research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others, and he has published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, The Carl Beck Papers, Ab Imperio, Kritika, and Slavic Review.
Prior to starting at UCLA, Dr. McBride held post-doctoral positions at Columbia University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Kennan Institute, and USC’s Shoah Foundation. Over the past five years, he has directed and instructed “Political Violence in the Modern World,” a year-long Cluster course that one thousand first-year students have completed at UCLA. He also teaches courses on the Soviet Union, 20th century Eastern Europe, the Second World War, and on History and Film. Presently, he is completing a book manuscript concerning interethnic violence and local perpetrators in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. Dr. McBride is available for media inquiries concerning Ukraine and Russia.
Publications
Articles:
“A Return to Antenora? Observations on Collaboration during the Russo-Ukrainian War,” Journal of Genocide Research (October 2023).
“The Tuchyn Pogrom: Names and Faces Behind Summer 1941 Violence,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies (October 2022).
“The Many Lives and Afterlives of Khaim Sygal: Borderland Identities and Violence in Wartime Ukraine,” Journal of Genocide Research 23, no.4 (2021): 547-567.
“Peasants into Perpetrators: The OUN-UPA and the Ethnic Cleansing of Volhynia, 1943-1944,” Slavic Review 75, no.3 (Fall 2016): 630-54.
“Who is Afraid of Ukrainian Nationalism?” Kritika 17, no.3 (Summer 2016): 647-63.
“Remembering and Forgetting the Malyn Massacre: Memory, Ethnicity and the Second World War in Eastern Europe,” Carl Beck Papers no.2405 (2016).
Courses:
HIST 1C: Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
HIST 120B: East-Central Europe: Short 20th Century, 1918 to 1990
HIST 120D: Film and History: Central and Eastern Europe, 1945 to 1989
HIST 127C: History of Russia: Revolutionary Russia and Soviet Union
CLUSTER 48: Political Violence in Modern World: Causes, Cases, and Consequences
Awards & Grants
Grants/Fellowships
2022 UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Research Grant
2016 Northwestern University, Abramson Grant Research Fellowship
2015-16 US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Ben & Zelda Cohen Post-Doc Fellowship
2015 Woodrow Wilson International Center, Kennan Institute, Title VIII Scholar
2014 USC Shoah Foundation, Margee and Douglas Greenberg Fellowship
2013 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship on Violence
2013 SSRC, Eurasia Dissertation Development Award
2013 Claims Conference, Saul Kagan Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2012 UCLA Jewish Studies, Roter Summer Research Grant
2010 Fulbright-Hays, Dissertation Research Fellowship, Ukraine/Russia
2010 UCLA Jewish Studies, Mellon Holocaust Summer Research Grant
2003 Northeastern University Honors Division, Matthews Thesis Research Grant
