Evan Turiano is a historian interested in slavery, civil rights, politics, and law in the 18^th and 19^th c. United States and Atlantic World. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York in 2022. At the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, he is working on a project examining the "history and tradition" of firearms, gun culture, and weapons regulation in five states in order to model how historians can participate in law and policymaking in the Bruen era. Additionally, Evan is working on a book manuscript, under advance contract with LSU Press's "Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World" series, which examines the contested legal rights of African Americans accused of being fugitive slaves from before the American Revolution through the onset of the Civil War.

His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era, and he has reviewed books in the Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth Century History, Pennsylvania History, and other venues. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post's  Made By History and Jacobin. He is a contributing editor at The Gotham Center for New York City History. His research has been supported by fellowships from Yale University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the John Carter Brown Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, and the University of Virginia's Nau Center for Civil War History.