Archaeology

Dr Corinne Duhig teaches in the Department of Archaeology and the Institute of Continuing Education at Cambridge. Her specialism is the study of human remains, and her main, although not exclusive, focus is ancient Egypt. Corinne is a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and a College Research Associate and Director of Studies in Archaeology at Wolfson College. She runs the osteoarchaeology and funerary-archaeology consultancy Gone to Earth and worked for many years in forensic archaeology and anthropology.
Corinne's research interests are primarily the interpretation of burial practices and the superimposed effects of taphonomy (post-mortem effects that transform the body), the trauma of interpersonal violence, and physiological stress indicators.

I am from Brighton, and came to Lucy Cavendish with OU credits, having previously worked in fundraising.  I’m doing Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, which is great for tying together my interests in genetics, human ecology and human evolution. The course is really diverse – I’m never bored. It also offers lots of opportunities to handle archaeological objects, and covers a huge span of time, starting seven million years in the past! Because my department is small, I’ve met loads of people, at every level, which has given me the chance to participate in archaeological activities outside the course, and I’m lucky that Lucy Cavendish has an Archaeology Fellow. The College is really friendly, and I recommend Saturday Brunch...

Alex Loktionov is an Egyptologist. As well as being a Bye-Fellow at Lucy, he is a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Royal Society of Arts, 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 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 – 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://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/current-projects/development-early-constitutional-thought), which he directed from 2021 to 2024. He is also editing the proceedings of the recent Coffins in Context conference (https://egyptiancoffins.org/coffinsincontext) 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. During his PhD, Alex also spent six months as an AHRC Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. He then went on to work as a Teaching Associate in Egyptian language at the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge, when he was also a Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College. Following this, he served as Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellow in Egyptology at Christ’s College, Cambridge (2019-2024).