James Allan Stewart Evans (March 24, 1931 – November 15, 2023) was a Canadian historian and professor emeritus of classical Near Eastern and religious studies.

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• From 1955 to 1960 he was assistant professor of Classics at the University of Western Ontario and Waterloo College, London.
• From 1960 to 1961 he was Visiting special lecturer in Classics at the University of Toronto.
• From 1961 to 1962 he was assistant professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
• From 1962 to 1971 he was professor of history at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• From 1972 to 1995 he was professor of classics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and became professor emeritus.^[1]
• From 1992 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[2]
• From 1998 he was visiting faculty, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia^[3]
• From 1997 he was visiting professor of history, University of Washington, Seattle^[4]
• From 1998 to 1999 he was Whitehead Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies, Athens^[5]
• Evans died in November 15, 2023, at the age of 92.^[6]
• Blog of published work at Allan Evans at Sidney British Columbia