Jason Oliver Evans

Jason Oliver Evans (he/him/his) is Research Associate and Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. Evans is a constructive theologian working at the intersection of Christian systematic theology with theological and social ethics, Africana studies, and studies of gender and sexuality. Evans primarily studies Christology, soteriology, creation, and theological anthropology. 

Evans earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in religious studies from the University of Virginia. Previously, Evans earned a Th.M. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, an M.Div. from Duke University Divinity School, and a B.S. in speech communication from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

In addition, Evans has abiding research interests in historical theology, Trinitarian theology, Black and womanist theologies, queer theologies, Scripture and theological hermeneutics, and the thought of 20th-century Reformed theologian Karl Barth. Moreover, Evans is a podcast contributor for the Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia. Evans has also contributed articles for the independent news organization, The Conversation.

An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches USA, Inc., Evans currently serves as an associate minister at the historic St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Evans enjoys cooking, baking, reading cookbooks and food magazines, and binge-watching cooking shows in his spare time.
Supervisors: Paul Dafydd Jones