Alex Loktionov is an Egyptologist. As well as being a Bye-Fellow at Lucy, he is an Affiliated Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, a member of the Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Language Centre, and holds a second Bye-Fellowship at Christ’s College. Outside Cambridge, Alex works remotely as Professor of Egyptology at HSE University (Moscow) and is a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London.
Alex has a particular interest in ancient Egyptian justice, and has recently published the results of a large-scale international collaboration on Ancient Egyptian views of the afterlife judgment (https://www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/british-russian-egyptology-collaboration-new-views-justice-afterlife). He has also edited a major volume on ancient Egyptian law enforcement and ‘right conduct’ (Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Oxford, Archaeopress, 2023 – https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803275857). He is currently working on two co-authored books stemming from the AHRC-funded Development of Early Constitutional Thought project (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV006711%2F1), which he directed from 2021 to 2024. He is also editing the proceedings of the recent Coffins in Context conference held at Christ’s College, and designing a new Russian-language grammar of Middle Egyptian. His other publications have focused on topics as diverse as Egypto-Mesopotamian contacts, prophecy, and the history of Egyptology in Russia.
Alex holds BA, MPhil and PhD degrees from Cambridge as well as Fellowships of the Royal Society of Arts and the Higher Education Academy. Prior to taking up his current posts, he served as Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s, as well as being a Teaching Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge Department of Archaeology. He has also worked as an AHRC-funded Research Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, where he investigated methods of reconstructing the legal system of Ancient Egypt through a mixture of textual, ethnographic and wider theoretical approaches.
