Greetings From Wilbour Hall. . . 

This website is meant to serve as an online repository for some of the writings and works, both public and private, of Richard A. Parker. Richard Parker served as the first chairman and founder of Brown University's Department of Egyptology. This project earned its wings when Sara Wintz, the Academic Department Manager, discovered folders and journals, some of which are enclosed herein, in a closet in Wilbour Hall. Wintz then hired me (Kailani Fletcher) and Lia Ortner in the Spring of 2023 to work on digitizing what was found. Ortner and I worked through each journal and folder, scanning and carefully labeling each page. We had the help of graduate students in the Egyptology and Assyriology Department, notably Christopher Cox helped Ortner and I identify the content of some of Parker’s writings and transliterate Demotic characters into Roman alphabet letters. In our efforts to fully digitize and organize what Wintz had found, Ortner and I also had the aid of Susannah Paine, who was a great help. When both Ortner and Paine graduated in 2024, I continued the work individually. Wintz and I got the idea in the spring of 2024 to turn all the work into a website for the purpose of easy viewing of Parker’s ideas, processes, and research. I have spent the last two years producing supplemental information and reorganizing the digitized pages with the goal of making what Wintz once found in forgotten dusty boxes into accessible information for those interested in Egyptology research and/or the efforts of Richard A. Parker. On this website you will find Parker’s biography and many of his writings. I have divided his journals and folders into subcategories according to similarity in content. Happy browsing! 

All photos of Richard A. Parker  are courtesy of Dartmouth Libraries.