Ian Harris is reader in Buddhist studies at University College of St. Martin, Lancaster, and associate fellow, Becket Institute, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Read more

Solang (b. Tuk Meas, Cambodia) and Beling (b. Hunan, China) Uk are the authors of the first translation of Zhou Daguan's account on Angkor in the 13th century sourced from Chinese and Khmer versions of this essential testimony about the Angkorian power at its peak, before the Siamese and Cham… Read more

Born in 1957 in Phnom Penh, photographer Dunnara Meas was 18 when the Khmer Rouge coup d'Etat forced him into exile, in France.Renowned still photographer for feature films and theater performances, he came back to Cambodia in order to cover the shooting of Rithy Panh's Les gens de la rizière (Rice… Read more

Sakada Sakhoeun (1986, Phnom Penh) is a senior archeologist with ADFKulen. Involved in several archaeological projects for Sydney University (Australia) and Sophia University (Japan), Sakhoeun joined the Archeological and Development Foundation/Phnom Kulen in 2009, spending his time between the ADF… Read more

Sent to South East Asia as an enlisted private in the Foreign Legion ('Légion Étrangere'), Jean Narcisse Commaille (24 June 1868, Marseilles - 30 Apr. 1916, Siem Reap) became the First Conservateur (Curator) of Angkor Wat in July 1908 after joining the EFEO as a mere civil servant eight years… Read more

Journalist, novelist and poet Jeanne Leuba (8 Nov. 1882, Paris – 24 July 1979, Pettenbach, Austria) depicted in her novels the status of local and expatriate women in colonial Indochina, while getting involved into archaeological and historic research after marrrying EFEO director Henri Parmentier… Read more

A graduate student at EHESS Paris and University of Strasbourg, a PhD candidate, Chloé Chollet is a member of the DHARMA Project and a researcher in Khmer epigraphy with the CIK (Corpus des Inscriptions Khmeres). Read more

A leading expert in Thai, Burmese and Khmer Arts history, Hiram W. Woodward Jr., "Woody", (b. Baltimore, Md., USA) fostered one of the main Asian art collections worldwide when he was Curator of The Walters Arts Museum, 1986-2003. After studying in the US (Harvard College), London and Bangkok -- he… Read more

Senior lecturer in musicology at the Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University in Växjö (Sweden), Martin Knust studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Greifswald, Berlin and Dresden. Since 2007, he has held appointments and lectureships at the E.-M.-Arndt-University in Greifswald,… Read more

A doctor in musicology and ethnomusicology, Jarernchai Chonpairot teaches at the College of Music, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. In 2019, Dr. Jarernchai Chonpairot gave the opening speech to the 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Among many… Read more

教授 (Jiaoshou, Professor) 段立生 Duan Lisheng (1944, Dali, Yunnan Province 大理市 云南), a descendant of the Duan Royal Family of Dali, is distinguished scholar in history of art, Siamese and Thai cultures, Southeast Asia and world architecture. Graduated from Beijing University in 1967 after studying… Read more

Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (17 Oct. 1900, Belsize Grove, England -1981) was a British historian and archaelogist who served as an adivser to Kings Rama VI and Rama VII of Siam from 1924 to 1928, devoting his his doctoral thesis to the Siamese State Ceremonies (published in 1931).… Read more

Meera Abraham (1929?- 16 Oct. 2014, Kadapra, Kerala, India) was an historian of Indian sea-faring merchant trade. Married to Indian diplomat Thomas Abraham (1927-2018), himself an historian who served as High Commissioner in Sri Lanka from 1928 to 1982 and advocated for the Tamil minority rights,… Read more

Specializing in early Metal Age in Southeast Asia and Traditional crafts and early agriculture, Dr. Andreas Reinecke studied Prehistory and Vietnamese language at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, and since 1993 heads the Division for Southeast Asian archaeology at the Commission for Archaeology… Read more

George Benjamin Walker (also George B. Walker, Benjamin Walker, Jivan Bhakar) (25 November 1913, Calcutta, British India (Kolkata) – 30 July 2013, ?) was an Indian-British author on religion, philosophy, mysticism, a poet, satirist and the first writer to publish an encyclopedia on Hinduism (Hindu… Read more

Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (25 June 1956, Manhattan, NYC, USA - 8 June 2018, Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France) was an acclaimed food and travel writer, food explorer, ex-prep cook and ex-chef, who portrayed the planet, its people and their culinary habits (or quirks) while relentlessly traveling… Read more

Jean Przyluski (17 August 1885, Le Mans, France – 28 October 1944) was a French linguist, a Vietnamese language specialist and a and scholar of comparative religion studies and Buddhism of Polish descent. He studied under the direction of French Orientalist Sylvain Lévi, and succeeded Louis Finot… Read more

Émile Arthur Soldi or Soldi-Colbert (1846, Paris, France - 1906, Rome, Italy), was a medalist, sculptor, and archaeology and art historian. A French citizen of Danish descent (his real patronym was Soldyck, from a Danish Jewish family), Soldi received the Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving at… Read more

Henri Bernard (Bernard-Maître after 1948) (Chinese name Pei Huaxing 裴化行) (22 Oct 1889, Châlons-sur-Marne -- 3 Feb 1975, Gouvieux, France) was a French Jesuit priest, teacher and Orientalist, head of the Jesuit mission in Xianxian 献县 (Tientsin, Gangzhou, China) from 1924 to 1947. He was also a… Read more

Prof. Kalyan Kumar Sarkar (1 Feb 1932, Krishnagar, West Bengal, India - 15 March 2014, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was a historian of Ancient India and Professor Emeritus, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Born and educated in India, Dr. Sarkar went to Paris in 1958 to complete his Ph.D. at… Read more