John H. Evans is the Tata Chancellor’s Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Associate Dean of the Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego.  He specializes in examining debates that involve religion and science in the public sphere, as well as using social science to contribute to humanistic and ethical debates.  His most recent books are Morals Not Knowledge: Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict Between Religion and Science (University of California Press, 2018) and The Human Gene Editing Debate (2020, Oxford University Press).