Kent Davis is a publisher, editor, author, translator (English, Thai, French), independent researcher and literary archaeologist. Since founding DatAsia Press with his wife Sophaphan in 2005, they have worked publishing a series of reference books relating the history, art and culture of… Read more

Daughter of sinologist Georges Maspero (her mother was Cécile Sophie Maspero nee Seyrig), grand-daughter of archeologist and explorer Gaston Maspero (1872-1942), Éveline Porée-Maspero (20 Apr. 1906, Cholon, Cochinchina - 12 July 1991, Saint-Tropez, France) was an anthropologist and researcher with… Read more

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SEM Sara was a doctoral student at Phnom Penh Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in the 1960s. He went missing during the Khmer Rouge period. Read more

Shinichi Nishimoto, a professor at Nippon Institute of Technology, is an architect and archaeologist who worked extensively in Cambodia and Egypt.With a Master of Engineering at University of Tsukuba, he contributed to several studies on structural design and water management at the Angkor Thom and… Read more

Rüdiger Gaudes is a German linguist and Khmerologist who published a monumental (1330 pages) Worterbuch Khmer Deutsch (Khmer-German Dictionary) in 1985. Read more

Ethnomusicologist and music archaeologist Patrick Kersalé (1959, Nantes, France) has spent the past 30 years traveling around the world (primarily in West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Nepal and Europe) in order to seek traditional music at risk of disappearing in order to preserve the memory and… Read more

One of India’s greatest translators and Sanskritists, Manmatha Nath Dutt (Shastri) (1855, Calcutta, India -1912, Baranagar, India) translated from Sanskrit to English important works such as Valmiki Ramayana (sequentially from 1892 to 1894), Markandeya Purana (1896), Bhagavata Purana (1896), Vishnu… Read more

French civil engineer, indefatigable traveler and compulsive big-game hunter Marie Auguste Edgar Boulangier (1850-1899) visited Cambodia in 1880-1881, his first official mission for which he was granted logistical support by King Norodom. This 'mineralogical-hydrological' exploration was supposed… Read more

Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards: 5 Nov. 1831, Ahmednagar, India (1) – 19 Jan. 1915, Montreal, Canada) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. She attained worldwide fame when she published her account of her years (1862-1867)… Read more

Henri George Kennedy was a Student Interpreter at the British Consulate in Bangkok when he met pioneer photographer J. Thomson and went with him in his famous travel through Cambodia in January-May 1866. Fluent in Thai (Siamese), H.G. Kennedy is credited to have saved Thomson's life when the latter… Read more

Pauline Dy Phon ប៉ូលីន ឌី ផុន nee Tan (1933, Krav, Kompong Speu Province, Cambodia -21 May 2010) was a Cambodian botanist specialized in the flora of Southeast Asia. After graduating from the Paris Faculty of Sciences in 1959, Pauline Dy Phon taught at Phnom Penh Lycée Sisowath before becoming a… Read more

Sudha Verma (17 Sep.1941, Baghalpur, Bihar, India - 29 Jan. 1988) was a professor of Hindi Literature at Gautama Buddha Mahila (Women’s) College, Gaya, Bihar. She authored two books on the Tulsi Ramayana, Maanas ke Patra (1987) and Agneya Asia mein Ramakatha (1982). A poetess herself, Dr. Sudha… Read more

Monica Smith is an archaeologist with the Faculty of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, whose principal research interests are the human interaction with material culture, urbanism as a long-term human phenomenon, and the development of social complexity.Her current… Read more

Félix Gaspard Faraut (13 June 1846, Nice, France - 19 Aug. 1911, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French archaeologist, engineer, artist, photographer and researcher who established the first repertory of Khmer monuments at the turn of the century.As the mechanic on the French war boat "La Javeline" in… Read more

Aurélie Fischer (b. 1984, Mons, Belgium) is a freelance photographer based in Cambodia since 2020. After hearing the "call of the East" in the 2010s, she visited Angkor for the first time in 2014, spent some time as a volunteer in the experimental city of Auroville, India, and photographed the huge… Read more

Malcolm John MacDonald (17 August 1901, Lossiemouth, Scotland – 11 January 1981, Maidstone, Kent, England) was a British politician and "unconventional" diplomat, an ornithologist and art collector (Chinese ceramics, in particular), a promoter of 'cultural decolonisation' who published in 1958 what… Read more

With a PhD in Asian and African Studies (2017) from Sapienza University, Roma, Italy, Paolo E. Rosati has published a double special issue on Tantra for Religions of South Asia (14/1–2) in 2020, and several contributions on the yoni cult at Kāmākhyā (Assam, India), the temple devoted to the Shakta… Read more

Dr. Adrien Louis-Marius Pannetier (1873, Bordeaux, France -19??), a French colonial administration physician ('médecin titulaire de l'Assistance médicale') in Cambodia in the years 1900s, undertook numerous linguistic, anthropomorphological, sociological researches during his stay in French… Read more

Prabodh Chandra (P.C.) Bagchi প্রবোধচন্দ্র-বাগচী (Bengali) (18 Nov 1898, Jessore, Bengal, British India (now Magura, Bangladesh) – 19 Jan 1956, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) was a notable Sino-Indologist of the 20th century, and the third Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of Visva-Bharati University,… Read more