Born and raised in St Louis, Evan did his undergraduate studies in Washington DC (GW), Missouri (MU), and Paris (Sciences Po). He lived in Buenos Aires, Salvador da Bahia, and Calcutta before entering the MA/MSc program, where he wrote his thesis on the late Cold War in Latin America. After graduation, he taught history in Hong Kong before moving to Bogotá, Colombia to work for the Centro de Recursos para el Análisis de Conflictos (CERAC). From 2015-16, he was a researcher at UMAM Documentation and Research in Beirut. Since 2016, he has been a writer and editor based in Istanbul. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Le Monde diplomatique, the Los Angeles Review of Books, New Lines Magazine, and Jacobin. His book, City of Refuge: A History of Istanbul Through Eight Neighborhoods, will be released by Bloomsbury in February 2027.
