This summer at ISAC, we were thrilled to welcome archival intern Cora Miller (University of Chicago, BA ’28), who completed the first comprehensive organization and cataloging of the Klaus Baer Papers housed in the ISAC Archives.
Building on the foundational index of the Baer Papers published by Dr. Terry Wilfong in For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer (SAOC 55), Cora correlated Wilfong’s inventory with the physical collection and fully reorganized, rehoused, and cataloged the papers down to the folder level. Her work brings Baer’s extensive research legacy spanning Old Kingdom administration, Coptic grammar, field notes from Saqqara and Hierakonpolis, and more into a fully modern archival framework.
All records are now publicly available through ISAC’s institutional repository, with an updated finding aid and detailed folder-level metadata: Papers of Klaus Baer.
Cora’s efforts ensure that Baer’s archives, long a cornerstone of Egyptological scholarship, are newly accessible to researchers around the world and preserved for future work in language, history, archaeology, and philology.
We’re grateful for Cora’s outstanding work and can’t wait to see where her archival and research interests lead next!
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