Christian Langer is a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at the Free University of Berlin. His doctoral dissertation looks at deportations in ancient Egyptian history between 3000 BCE and 332 BCE. For the academic year 2016/17, he is an ERASMUS visiting research student with the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. His research interests include political and social history, political theory, imperialism and colonialism, ideology, foreign and domestic policy, unfree labour and forced migration in pharaonic Egypt, and the colonial heritage of Egyptology and its impact on modern Egyptian society. His notable publications include his MA thesis on ‘Aspekte des Imperialismus in der Außenpolitik der 18. Dynastie’ and the article ‘The Political Realism of the Egyptian Elite: A Comparison Between the ‘Teaching for Merikare’ and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe’ on the theoretical similarities between ancient Egyptian and Machiavellian political thought.