Michael J. Evans joined the history department in 1965. A scholar of European intellectual history, Evans is a specialist in the Italian Renaissance with research interests centered on Niccolò Machiavelli. He has taught an array of courses focusing on the cultural and intellectual history of western civilization. He has served on a number faculty committees at various times, including curricular policy (CPC), long-range planning, campus senate, and tenure and promotion (TPC), as well as acting as faculty advisor to several fraternities. He has twice been the director of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's and Great Lakes College Association's European Urban Team Abroad Program (1981, 1990). Evans served as chair of the history department from 1973-80 and again in 1999-2000. A co-founder of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (IPHS) in 1975, he served as the program's director for many years.

Areas of Expertise

Italian Renaissance, intellectual and urban history, philosophy of history/historiography, European philosophical thought

Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan
M.A. University of Washington
B.A. University of Washington

Courses Taught

IPHS113-114 Odyssey of the West
IPHS215 Modernism and Its Critics
IPHS319 Dante and Machiavelli
HIST372 Utopian Thought
IPHS391 Freedom and Responsibility in the Modern World
IPHS392 Rise of Historical Consciousness