Christian Langer

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT CHRISTIAN LANGER

Christian is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia. He earned his doctorate from 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. He is a \'2022 Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher of Peking University\' and the 2017 awardee of the ‘Stiftungsfonds for Postgraduates in Egyptology.’ From 2016 to 2017, he was also an Erasmus+ Visiting Research Student at UCL Institute of Archaeology. 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 \"Aspekte des Imperialismus in der Außenpolitik der 18. Dynastie\"(Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013),\"Egyptian Deportations of the Late Bronze Age: A Study in Political Economy\"(Berlin: 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).