Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren

Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene is a Professor at the National University of Mongolia. He completed his PhD at Hokkaido University in 2004, and held research fellowships at Stanford University, 2008–2009, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2009–2011, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2012–2013, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2015–2023.

He works on the theories of origin and nature of the state, state and empire building in pre-modern Eurasia, issues of ethnicity, nationalism, knowledge production and the construction of collective identity in Mongolia and post-socialist transition.

Among other publications, he is the author of The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State: The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution (2022), and The Nomadic Leviathan: A Critique of the Sinocentric Paradigm (2023).

Munkh is a MIASU visiting scholar for the academic year 2025-26, as one of the three first recipients of the Chinggis Khaan Grant - fully funded by the Government of Mongolia and administered by the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) at the University of Cambridge in partnership with the Ministry of Culture, Sport, Tourism and Youth of Mongolia, and the Institute of Chinggis Khaan Heritage and Culture.