She won the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim fellowship (2002) and the Gold Medal from the Lima Metropolitan City Council (2011). Her Irish great-grandparents, Thomas Mc Evoy and Martha Feeley, migrated to Peru during the Great Famine.
Ambassador Mc Evoy has taught at the University of San Diego (1989-1995), as well as at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (1996-1999), and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, from 1995 until appointed Ambassador. A weekly contributor of the prestigious newspaper El Comercio (Lima) and a member of Peru’s History Academy, her work has contributed to the renovation of the political and intellectual historiography of Peru and Chile.
Among her books, the most recognized are: