Siân Evans

At Johns Hopkins, Siân Evans serves as a lecturer in the Master of Liberal Arts program.

A writer, organizer, and librarian based in Baltimore, Evans is currently the Librarian for History and Area Studies at the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining JHU, she was the Information Literacy and Instructional Design Librarian at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the co-founder of Art+Feminism, a campaign to create meaningful changes to the body of knowledge available about feminism and the arts on Wikipedia.

Evans’ writing can be found in edited volumes from MIT Press and Litwin press, as well as publications such as Art Documentation, The Serials Librarian, Lux Magazine, Dilettante Army, and Bmore Art. Her work with Art+Feminism has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, and more. She was named a Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine in 2014.

Evans holds a BA from McGill University, an MA from Western University, and an MSLIS from the Pratt Institute.