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Ivan Evans is a Professor in the Department of Sociology within the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a B.A. (Honours) from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining UCSD, he taught at the University of the Western Cape and UCLA.
Professor Evans specializes in South African studies with research interests spanning race and ethnicity, political sociology, violence and society, social movements, and environmental sociology. His work takes a comparative approach, particularly examining similarities and differences between racial systems in South Africa and the American South.
His major publications include Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (1997) and Cultures of Violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the American South (2008), which established him as a leading scholar in comparative racial violence. His research demonstrates consistent thematic development from historical analysis of racial systems toward contemporary environmental concerns.
Professor Evans currently teaches courses on change in modern South Africa, race and ethnicity, political sociology, violence and society, social movements, and environmental sociology. His current research focuses on global climate change and the politics of water management in southern Africa, representing an evolution of his scholarly interests toward contemporary environmental challenges in the region he has long studied.
