Sukanta Chaudhuri (b. 1950, Calcutta (Kolkata), India) is Professor Emeritus at ​the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A famed literary translator and editorial theorist, he was the project director of Bichitra [বিচিত্রা: বৈদ্যুতিন রবীন্দ্র-রচনাসম্ভার Bichitra: Online… Read more

Phuy Meychean is a Cambodian researcher in Khmer art history focusing on representations of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses, and an intern for the SOAS program Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art, London. With a BA in Archaeology from the Royal University of… Read more

Morris Rossabi (b. 5 Dec. 1941, Alexandria, Egypt) is an American historian specializing in Central Asia, Mongol and Chinese History, a professor at City University of New York and an associate professor at Columbia University., New York City, USA.His Yemenite Jewish family moved to Egypt in the… Read more

Dr Sally Frances Low is an Australian researcher in law history and a specialist in international development assistance. From 1993 until 2013, Sally Low was a project designer, evaluator and manager in international development programs in Asia and the Pacific with an emphasis on the rebuilding of… Read more

Claude Farrère [penname of Frédéric-Charles Bargone] (27 April 1876, Lyon France - 21 June 1957, Paris) was a French Navy officer and a prolific writer known for his depiction of French colonialism in Saigon with Les civilisés, Prix Goncourt 1905 (he was 29 and was unknown in literary circles), for… Read more

Diana L. Eck (b. 1945, Tacoma, Washington, USA) is a scholar of religious studies, a professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard Universty since 1976- where she co-founded and heads the Pluralism Project -, and with partner Dorothy Evans the first same-sex couple having been… Read more

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François-Henri Dufour (19 Dec. 1870, Nancy, France - ?) was an architect and artist active in French Indochina as Inspector of Civil Buildings in Cambodia since 6 Oct. 1900, when he was directed to join the first ever EFEO archaeological mission (1901-2), conjointly with the Commission… Read more

John Gilman D'Arcy Paul [or J.G. D'Arcy Paul or J.Gilman D'Arcy Paul or J.G.D. Paul or John Paul] (31 Jan. 1887, Baltimore, Maryland - 12 Jan. 1972, Gilford, MD, USA) was an American diplomat, patron of the arts, globetrotter and landowner in Maryland, USA, who authored the first English… Read more

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Jean Laurent Delvert (19 May 1921, Vincennes, France - 24 June 2005, Paris) was a French geographer who spent ten years in Cambodia as part of his academic career and wrote extensively about Southeast Asia and tropical geography.Delvert was appointed assistant professor in geography in 1946, spent… Read more

Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (b. 5 Nov 1939) is a French paleontologist specializing in birds of the Eocene and the Oligocene, a former Research Director at CNRS (1985-2005) and the discoverer with husband Roland Mourer of the Cambodian prehistoric cave site of Laang Spean ភ្នំទាក់ទ្រាំង ល្អាងស្ពាន in… Read more

Sheldon Pollock (b. 1948, USA) is an American scholar researcher, translator specializing in Sanskrit philology, Indian intellectual and literary history, comparative intellectual history, who wrote about the language and meaning of ancient inscriptions in India and Southeast Asia.Educated at… Read more

George Wooley Spencer (1939, Maryland, USA - 19 Jan 2021, DeKalb, Illinois, USA) was an American historian who was extensively written on Tamil culture and Chola Empire history since he presented his PhD thesis at University of California, Berkeley, “Royal Leadership and Imperial Conquest in… Read more

Xu Zhaolin 許肇琳 [simplified 许肇琳] (b. 1936, Udong, Cambodia) is a Cambodian historian who settled in China at an early age, a professor at 中山大学东南亚研究所 [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Sun-Yatsen University] who been writing extensively on China-Cambodia relations since the earliest times,… Read more

Dr. Bernard Menaut (6 May 1879, Parentis-en-Born, France -1943, Rion-des-Landes, France) was a French physician who worked in Cambodia as Chief of Health Service from 1910 to 1939, trained numerous local doctors and studied Cambodian traditional medecine, as well as serving as personal physician to… Read more

Andrew Spooner (1840, Paris - 29 July 1884, Cascade du Bois de Boulogne, Paris) was a French-American merchant established in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh Ville] in 1861, a reporter with French magazine L'Illustration who covered the French army's assault on Bien-Hoa on 9 Dec. 1861, and an early Western… Read more

Kallidaikurichi Aiyah (K. A.) Nilakanta Sastri  (12 Aug. 1892, Kallidaikurichi, Tinnevely [now Tirunelveli] District, Madras Presidency, British India– 15 June 1975, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India) was an Indian historian specializing in South India, regarded as the most distinguished and… Read more

Chaloem [or Chalerm] Yongboonkerd [or Yongbunkerd] เฉลิม ยงบุญเกิด (2455=1912-2518=1975) was a Thai banking historian and theorician, a linguist and the author of the reference Thai translation of Zhou Daguan's records of Chenla.After studying Chinese loanwords in Thai language, Chaloem… Read more