Professor Evergates has her B.A. in Classics from Goucher College and a Ph.D. in Classics from The Johns Hopkins University. She has been a faculty member in the departments of Foreign Languages and History since 1987.

Fluent in Latin and Greek, Evergates teaches the works of Catullus, Cicero, Homer and Euripides in the original to small groups of capable students. She also helps many more build a strong foundation in the Classics through survey courses featuring Greek and Roman literature in translation.

Since becoming the coordinator of the Women’s Studies minor in 1996, she has taught courses that examine women’s experiences in medieval and early modern history as well as modern European and American history.

She was recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003 and the McDaniel College Special Achievement Award in 2007 for leadership and implementation of the College’s new curriculum.