Dr. Christian Langer

Christian Langer, FRHistS earned his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) with a dissertation on deportations in ancient Egyptian history between 1550 BCE and 1069 BCE. From 2021 to 2023 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University, School of Arts. His research interests revolve around political and social history, ideology, foreign and domestic policy, political economy, labour, forced migration in pharaonic Egypt, as well as the colonial heritage of Egyptology and Egyptology in the Global South. His publications include Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age: A Study in Political Economy (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021) and the edited collection Global Egyptology: Negotiations in the Production of Knowledges on Ancient Egypt in Global Contexts (London: Golden House Publications, 2017).