He is a member of the academic staff (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany. He defended his PhD at New York University in 2021 and subsequently taught at the Chair for East and Southeast European History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

He is currently developing a new research project about the emerging science of botanical geography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states. The project aims to understand how naturalists and scientists grappled with competing political and biological visions of space in East Central Europe in an age of shifting political borders before and after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy.

During his time at the Center for Urban History, Jared will be researching the careers of several botanists active in Habsburg-era Lviv in the second half of the nineteenth century.