James Allan Stewart Evans is a

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historian and professor emeritus of classical Near Eastern and religious studies.

Biography

*From 1955 to 1960 he was assistant professor of

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at the

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and Waterloo College, London. *From 1960 to 1961 he was Visiting special lecturer in

at the

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. *From 1961 to 1962 he was assistant professor of classics at the

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. *From 1962 to 1971 he was professor of history at the

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, Canada. *From 1972 to 1973 he was professor of classics at the

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and became professor emeritus.http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/evans-james-allan-1931

References

1931 births Living people 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian Byzantinists People from Cambridge, Ontario Scholars of Byzantine history {{Canada-historian-stub