James Peter Allen (born 1945) is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 to 2006.[1][2] In 2007, he became the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.[3] In 2008, he was elected president of the International Association of Egyptologists. A graduate of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago.[citation needed] -Wikipedia