Dr. Jocelyn Evans

• Director, Kugelman Honors Program
• jevans@uwf.edu
• 850.474.2934

Biography

Jocelyn Evans is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Kugelman Honors Program at the University of West Florida. She holds a BS degree from Berry College and a Ph.D. from The University of Oklahoma. She has served as chair of the UWF Reubin O’D. Askew Department of Government and as associate dean of the UWF College of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. As a native Floridian from the Panhandle, Dr. Evans is committed to broadening student access to collegiate honors and empowering students through applied research skills to serve as community leaders.

She is the author or coauthor of several books on Congress, including Women, Partisanship, and the Congress by Palgrave, Congressional Communication in the Digital Age by Routledge, and One Nation under Siege: Congress, Terrorism, and the Fate of American Democracy by University Press of Kentucky. She also is the coauthor of a popular introductory textbook on American politics in its 12th edition entitled Central Ideas in American Government with Soomo Learning. Her current research focuses on the social meaning of civic spaces. With a coeditor, she assembled an interdisciplinary team of scholars for a journal special issue on Confederate memorials and public spaces of contested iconography published in Social Science Quarterly. With a coauthor, she recently published a book on the democratic meaning of court architecture, The U.S. Supreme Court’s Democratic Spaces, with the University of Oklahoma Press. And with a coauthor, she looks forward to the upcoming publication of her work on public beach access, The Beach as Contested Public Space: Mapping Territorial Tensions Along the Florida Coast, by Springer.