Eugène Hyppolyte Léopold Marie Manen (30 July 1829, Toulouse – 21 May 1897, Paris) was a French naval hydrographer and cartographer who rose to ingénieur en chef de la Marine and headed the French Navy’s Hydrography Service. Trained at the École polytechnique (entered 1849; hydrographic engineer,… Read more

Melanie Eastburn is an Australian museum curator, Senior Curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) since 2016, who worked at Phnom Penh National Museum of Cambodia in 2003-2004.Born and raised in Papua New Guinea's Highlands - her father, David Eastburn, was a… Read more

Seang Sokha is a Cambodian researcher at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology (UK), specializing in Khmer art history, museology and cultural studies related to Southeast Asia.He graduated in 2011 from Chulalongkorn… Read more

Chaitanya Sambrani is an Indian-Australian art historian and curator specializing in contemporary art in Asia, and a researcher at the Australian National University (ANU). After studying at the Art Criticism at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, India, and completing a Ph.D. in Art… Read more

Pham Kim Khanh, also known as Phạm Kim Khánh, Kim Khanh, Sunanda Pham Kim Khanh (10 Jan. 1921, Ben Tre [Bến Tre], Vin Long Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam - 27 Feb. 2011, Seattle, WA, USA) was a photographer and photo-reporter active in Cambodia in the years 1950s and 1960s, and later on a Buddhist… Read more

Guy Porée (1902-1985) was a French writer, ethnologist and photographer who explored Cambodian culture after getting close to researcher Eveline Maspero at Paris Institut des Langues Orientales [Oriental Languages Institute] where they were both studying Chinese language in the mid-20s, and living… Read more

Dorothy Fall born Winer (b. 7 April 1930, Rochester, NY, USA) is an American artist, graphic designer and writer who published in 2006 a book of memories on famous war correspondent and political scientist Bernard Fall (1926-1967), her husband since 20 February 1954 and the father of their three… Read more

Dr. Bernard B. (Berthold) Fall (19 Nov. 1926, Vienna, Austria – 21 Feb. 1967, near Hue, Thừa Thiên Province, Vietnam) was a soldier, war correspondent, political scientist, and historian who reported on and studied the 'Indochina Wars' in 1950s and 1960s. "A soldier and a scholar," he advocated for… Read more

Jean-Pierre Dannaud (6 Feb. 1921, Paris - 7 Dec. 1995, Paris, France) was a French civil servant based in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh City] in the 1950s, a novelist and essayist who wrote about the Indochina Wars and Cambodia, and won the 1993 French Academy Prize for his novel Fleuve Rouge (Red… Read more

Serge Dubuisson is a French photographer who was in charge of the African and Asian photo archive at Centre National des Archives d'Outre-Mer (ANOM), Aix-en-Provence, France, in the 1980s and 1990s.After studying the trade at Paris National School of Photography and Cinematography (ETPC, founded in… Read more

Anjana Sharma is an Indian writer, essayist, literary historian and a professor of British literature at the Department of English, Delhi University, specializing in women's literature of the 18th and 19th centuries in English language, as well as questions of gender in Indian or British modern… Read more

Murari Kumar Jha (b. 1977, Kahua, Bihar, India) is an Indian historian and researcher applying an interdisciplinary approach, including environmental factors, to explain historical change in global history and particularly in the Indian Ocean area.With a BA in history at Bhagalpur University… Read more

Fernando Rosa [also known as Dr. Luiz Fernando Ferreira da Rosa Ribeiro] is a Brazilian anthropologist and historian who has worked on and lived within various Indian Ocean societies, particularly South Africa (Cape Town), India (Kerala and Goa), Peninsular Malaysia (mostly Kuala Lumpur and… Read more

Farish A. Noor [also knows as Badrol Hisham Ahmad Noor] is a Malaysian historian and political scientist, an Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and the School of History, College of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (COHASS), Nanyang Technological… Read more

Dr. Vũ Đức Liêm is a Vietnamese historian, author, and the Vice Dean of the History Department at the Hanoi National University of Education. With a PhD from University of Hamburg (Germany), he has also studied at HNUE, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand), and at the National University of… Read more

James A. Anderson is an American historian in premodern China and Vietnam, and an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. With a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College, a M.A. and a Ph.D. in History obtained at… Read more

Sam Sam-Ang (b. 8 Jan 1950, Pursat Province, Cambodia) is an ethnomusicologist, teacher, researcher, and performance artist. Sam-Ang earned a BA and an MA in composition and later a doctorate in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In addition to the Apsara Ensemble,… Read more

Wilaiwan Khanittanan is a Thai linguist and Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, who has been studying the interaction of Khmer and Thai languages through modern times.Select… Read more

Since opening in 2001, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) Library in Siem Reap has grown from a few hundred to over 19,000 titles.  Situated within Wat Damnak, a thriving Buddhist monastery in the heart of Siem Reap, the CKS Library is the largest academic library in Cambodia outside of the capital… Read more

Jean-Claude Demariaux was a French civil administrator working at Postes et Télécommunications de l'Indochine [colonial postal services] in the 1940s and 1950s.A member of the Societe des Etudes Indochinoises (SEI) in Saigon, he authored a book on Poulo Condore Island 'bagne' [penal colony].Other… Read more