Evan Freeman studies art and ritual in the Byzantine Empire and cross-cultural interactions in the wider medieval world. He completed his PhD in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University and has held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Smarthistory and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Before joining the Department of Global Humanities at Simon Fraser University, he taught at Queens College of the City University of New York and Portland State University. Freeman has produced videos, essays, and edited volumes as well as open educational resources for Smarthistory and Khan Academy, contributing to digital public humanities projects. His research focuses on Byzantine ritual objects, mobility, monumental church art, and materiality.