Post-Doctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities
- PhD, The Catholic University of America, Medieval and Byzantine Studies
- MAR, Yale Divinity School, History of Christianity
- BA, University of California, San Diego, History
Dr. Paul Evans is the Academic Director of the Master of Science in Information Technology Leadership program in the University of San Diego’s Division of Professional and Continuing Education. He holds a PhD from the Center for Medieval and Byzantine Studies at The Catholic University of America and an MAR in the History of Christianity from Yale Divinity School. His research interests focus on the use of computational methods for the attribution of authorship of medieval Latin texts. Dr. Evans was the first Keck Postgraduate Fellow in Digital Humanities at the USD Humanities Center, and has taught a wide range of classes since 2015 in the English, History and Computer Science departments. Prior to that, he had a twenty-year technical and management career in the information technology field dedicated primarily to designing, deploying, and operating large-scale server environments for Silicon Valley startups such as Synopsys, Covad and Webvan.
Areas of Interest
In spring 2016, Dr. Evans will teach a new course, English 294, Introduction to Digital Research. 70 years ago, Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think" laid out a sweeping vision for a future of technology-enabled research. Taking Bush's vision as its starting point, Introduction to Digital Research will combine hands-on skills-based learning with reading, critical thinking, and writing about digital research.