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.
Archival Intern Cora Miller Tackles the Papers of Klaus Baer
November 30, 2025
Archival Intern Cora Miller.
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.
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Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 55
This volume was dedicated to the memory of Klaus Baer, Professor in the Oriental Institute for over twenty years. The contributors are colleagues and/or students of Professor Baer, and their articles…
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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.
Boxes of the Klaus Baer papers in the Archives.
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.
Klaus Baer notebooks with hieroglyphic transcriptions in the Archives.
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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