Dr. Alexandre Loktionov

Biography

Alexandre Loktionov is an Egyptologist based at Christ’s College, Cambridge, working remotely as a Professor of Egyptology at HSE University, Moscow. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London in the Department of Political Economy. His main research interests lie in ancient Egyptian justice, long-term constitutional change in ancient societies, and the exchange of intellectual culture between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Loktionov holds degrees including a PhD, MPhil, and BA from the University of Cambridge. He has previously worked at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is the primary investigator for an AHRC-funded project on Early Constitutional Thought, run jointly between Cambridge and King’s College London, collaborating with Professor Andrew Blick. His latest publication is "Compulsion Control in Ancient Egypt," edited by Loktionov and released in 2023 by Archaeopress.

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