Gillian Evans

Gillian Rosemary Evans is a British philosopher, and emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at University of Cambridge.

Evans was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, followed by a degree in history from St Anne's College, Oxford, and a postgraduate diploma in education. She earned her PhD from Reading University writing about Anselm of Canterbury. This had followed a long period of successive but denied applications for promotion to professorship. This long period was so notable that a scholar in an overlapping field at the University, Professor David Dumville, took the highly unusual step in a University Discussion (formal meetings of Regent House members) of wheeling in a trolleyload of Evans's publications, by way of demonstration of her output.

Academic freedom and democracy Evans is a campaigner for academic freedom and democracy. She is a member of Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards and qualified as a barrister to assist academics with grievances against their institutions.

Publications Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) The Language and Logic of the Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), The Language and Logic of the Bible: A Road to Reformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) The University of Cambridge: A New History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010) The University of Oxford: A New History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010) A Short History of Medieval Christianity (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017) Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century Church: The Church of England, Establishment and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) After North: Two Decades of Change at Oxford University (Oxford: Holywell Press, 2022)