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Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

Jane DeRose Evans, PhD

Associate Professor Emerita Art History

Website Tyler Art History Blog

Jane DeRose Evans stands outside with her arms crossed, looking at the camera. Behind her is an outdoor landscape featuring Roman architectural ruins.

Photo by Jivan Güner

Jane DeRose Evans can be found excavating in and studying coins from areas across the Mediterranean basin conquered by the Romans. Her work has taken her to southern France, Israel, Jordan and most recently Turkey, where she is the coin specialist for the Harvard-Cornell Expeditions to Sardis.

Evans has been teaching at Tyler for more than twenty years, exploring the art and material culture of the Roman provinces, Rome itself and the ethical issues surrounding cultural heritage.

She serves as President-elect of the American Society of Overseas Research, a Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, a member of the Cultural Heritage and Numismatic committees for the Archaeological Institute of America and an elected member of the Royal Numismatic Society.

Evans is no longer accepting graduate students.

Education

PhD, Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
MA, Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, University of Pennsylvania, 1984
AB, Greek and Latin Classics, Franklin and Marshall College, 1978

Selected Work

Evans, J.D., Tobin, J., Fuller, M. and Fuller, N. (2025, projected). The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports: The U-Shaped Building and Byzantine through Ottoman Caesarea. (American Society of Overseas Research).

Evans, J.D. (2024). "Gallia Aquitania and Gallia Lugdunensis." In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, vol. 2. Barbara Burrell, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell): 831-853.

Evans, J.D. (2020). "Adorning and Protecting: Glass Intaglios and the Changing Character of Being a Sardian in the Early Imperial Period,” Near Eastern Archaeology 83.4 2020: 200-209.

Evans, J. D. (2019). “The Mint at Sardis [in the Hellenistic Period].” In Spear-won Land: Sardis, from the King’s Peace to  the Peace of Apamea. Andrea Berlin and Paul Kosmin, eds. (University of Wisconsin Press): 137-156.

Evans, J. D. (2018). Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts: Coins from the 1973 to 2013 Excavations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

Evans, J. D., & Bull, R. J. (2017). The Mithraeum at Caesarea Maritima: The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports. Vol. 2. Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research.

Evans, J.D. (2017). “Cultural Memory, Artemis and “Kore”: The Coins of Sardis.” Quaderni Ticinesi (NAC) 46 2017: 133-  153.

Evans, J. D. (ed.) (2013). The Blackwell Companion to Roman Republican Archaeology. Malden, MA: Wiley.

Evans, J. D. (2013).“Five Small Bronze Hoards from Sardis and their Implications for Coin Circulation in the Fifth Century CE.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 369 2013: 137-156.

Evans, J. D. (2011). “From Mountain to Icon: Mt. Gerizim on Provincial Coins from Neapolis, Samaria.” Near Eastern  Archaeology 74:3 2011: 170-83

Evans, J. D. (2006). The Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima 6: The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Economies. Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research. 

Evans, J. D. (1992). The Art of Persuasion: Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.