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Vol. 31:1 ISSN 0160-8460 March 2003
Max Evans Appointed Executive Director
Max J. Evans joined the National Historical Publications and Records Commission as its new Executive Director on January 27, 2003. Most recently, Mr. Evans was the Director of the Utah State Historical Society and editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly. As Society Director, he also served as the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) and was responsible for publications, the history library (including published and manuscript materials, photographs, and maps), a statewide grants program, and the state history museum. He also served for over a year as the Acting State Archivist and was the chair of the State Records Committee from 1991 through 1998.
Mr. Evans is an active member of the archival community. He was a founding member of the Conference of Intermountain Archivists and is a fellow of the Society of American Archivists, having served on and chaired several SAA committees. Long interested in archives and automation, Mr. Evans helped develop the MARC-AMC format and the Research Libraries Group's archives and manuscripts programs. He was a member of the RLG Board of Directors, 1991-92. He led a project to digitize and publish back issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly as well as NHPRC, LSTA, and NEH projects to catalog, produce EAD finding aids, and digitize primary sources.
His career has included work as an editorial assistant for the Western Historical Quarterly, an archivist for the LDS Church Historical Department, and an archivist at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. While in Madison he also served as the Director of the state history library.
Mr. Evans attended Utah State University and the University of Utah, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American history. He later earned a master's degree in history at Utah State University, specializing in the history of the American West. He also studied American history and information science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evans and his wife, Mary, have five children and four grandchildren who live in Utah, Wisconsin, and Florida.
