Evelyn Edson (born November 28, 1940, in Oklahoma City) is an author, medievalist, and professor emerita of history.

From 1962 to 1964 she taught at Poughkeepsie's Oakwood Friends School and then matriculated as a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

At Roosevelt University she was from 1970 to 1971 a visiting assistant professor and from 1971 to 1972 an associate dean in continuing education.

[1] In 1999 in England, she spent six months as a Fellow of the Senior Common Room at Merton College, Oxford, where she was sponsored by Sarah Bendall.

[6][1] Natalia Lozovsky favorably reviewed Edson's 1999 book Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World, which describe mapmaking in western Europe from the 8th century to the late 13th century.