Evan earned his PhD in Biological Anthropology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale(link is external) where he focused on spatial patterns of skeletal and dental variation in two large necropoles of Iron Age Central Italy (1st millennium BCE). He helped develop the D-Lab R(link is external) and Python(link is external) FUN!damentals introductory workshop trainings and the Introduction to Machine Learning(link is external) and Deep Learning(link is external) workshops in R, founded the Machine Learning Working Group(link is external) in Fall 2016, and teaches DIGHUM101(link is external) (Practicing the Digital Humanities) for the DH Summer Minor and Certificate Program(link is external).
He always advocates for the beginner and prides himself on helping anthropologists, social and biological scientists, and humanists get onboarded with computational tools for their research. In an effort to "practice what he teaches", he has published original research in Dental Anthropology(link is external), Medical Mycology(link is external), The Bioarchaeology of Frontiers and Borderlands(link is external), Electronic Literature [Frame]works for the Creative Digital Humanities(link is external), and bioRxiv(link is external) in addition to other machine learning (PDF file)(link is external) and computational text analysis topics using the same techniques taught in his workshops and developed for online courses(link is external).
