Jared McDonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of The Humanities at the University of the Free State’s Qwaqwa Campus. He holds a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests include the intersections between Christianity, imperial citizenship, and resistance in the Cape Colony during the early nineteenth century; the work of the London Missionary Society in Southern Africa; comparative histories of settler colonialism; and the genocide of the Cape San.
He has published articles on these themes in journals such as the Journal of Genocide Research, Historia, and the South African Historical Journal and has contributed chapters to works such as Genocide on Settler Frontiers: When Hunter-Gatherers and Commercial Stock Farmers Clash and Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century. He published his first monograph in 2023 with Routledge, titled Khoesan and Imperial Citizenship in Nineteenth Century South Africa.