Evan Curley is a Canadian sociologist working and living in rural Nova Scotia. His research interests include: Art, Craft, and Cultural Organization, the State, Nova Scotia, Rurality, Work, and Identity. A penchant for social theory has led Evan to approach these topics through a variety of sociological, anthropological, and philosophical traditions. Evan is completing a PhD program at Dalhousie University studying coastal resource use and management,

fisheries conflicts, and sociological aspects of boatbuilding in Nova Scotia. Evan works as a Lecturer at Dalhousie and St.FX University, is a Graduate Student Advisor to the Editor at the Canadian Review of Sociology, and is a member of a number of academic societies such the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation, and the Avalon Research Society out of Memorial University.

In the spring of 2024, Evan won the Mushkat Memorial Essay Prize at Dalhousie University with an essay titled “The False Threat of Moderation: Sustaining Traditional Fishing Livelihoods”. The essay reflects on the recent Moderate Livelihood Fisheries conflicts in Nova Scotia, and proposes a potential common ground of resistance for settler and Indigenous fishers alike against what is identified as the true threat to traditional fishing life ways - industrial-scale fishing. Click the button above to read.