Ivan Evans, Associate Professor
Ph.D. - Wisconsin, 1986

Areas of Specialization: African Studies, Political Sociology, Sociology of Development, Ethnic and Race Relations, Social Movements

Email Address:   ievans@ucsd.edu
Phone number:    858-534-2614
Office location:  489 Social Science Building

Office Hours

Ivan Evans received his B.A. (honours) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He taught at the University of the Western Cape and UCLA before joining the Department of Sociology at UCSD. In addition to articles on South Africa, he has published Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (1997). He teaches courses on change in modern South Africa, race and ethnicity, political sociology, urban studies, social movements, and the sociology of intellectuals, and also has a special interest in sociological analyses of modernity/post-modernity. Professor Evan's current research contrasts the relationship between blacks and Jews in South Africa and the United States.

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Fall 2007

Winter 2008
SOCL 1B - The Study of Society
SOCG 226 - Political Sociology

Spring 2008
SOCD 188J - Change in Modern South Africa
SOCB 145 - Violence and Society

Book:
Evans, I. : Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa: University of California Press, 1997.

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