Alex Loktionov is an Egyptologist. A former Budge Fellow of the College, he is now Professor of Egyptology at HSE University (Moscow), but continues to be based in Cambridge and now serves the College as Access Bye-Fellow and co-ordinator of the Christ’s College Egyptology website. He is also a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Royal Society of Arts, and has an additional teaching-focussed Bye-Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College.
Alex has a particular interest in ancient Egyptian justice of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE, and has recently published a major edited volume on questions of ancient Egyptian law enforcement and ‘right conduct’ (Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt, Oxford: Archaeopress 2023). He is currently working on two co-authored books stemming from the AHRC-funded Development of Early Constitutional Thought project, which he directed from 2021 to 2024. He is also editing the proceedings of the recent Coffins in Context conference and designing a new Russian-language grammar of Middle Egyptian. His other publications have focussed on topics as diverse as Egypto-Mesopotamian contacts, prophecy, and the history of Egyptology in Russia.
Alex has a BA in Archaeology & Anthropology from Selwyn College, Cambridge, and an MPhil in Egyptology from St. John's College, Cambridge. His PhD was undertaken at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he investigated methods of reconstructing the legal system of Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom through a mixture of textual, ethnographic and wider theoretical approaches. Before coming to Christ’s, Alex was a Teaching Associate in Egyptian language at the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge, a Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and an AHRC Fellow at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
