Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 Sep. 1788, Paris - 2 June 1832, Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, Seine-et-Marne [of cholera]), a pioneer in French sinological studies who held the first chair of Chinese studies at Collège de France in 1814, takes a significant place in Khmer studies as the first Western… Read more

An education and entertainment channel presenting Khmer legends and tales in Khmer language. Read more

Kitagawa Takako 北川香子 is a Japanese researcher who studied at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. In 2005, she published her research 'Kampot of the Belle Époque: From the Outlet of Cambodia to a Colonial Resort'. With a special interest in Cambodian pre-modern… Read more

Jean Moura (3 Apr 1827, Moissac, France - 17 May 1885) was a French Navy officer, civil administrator, Khmerologist and explorer who authored one of the first exhaustive descriptions of Cambodia and Angkor, Le Royaume du Cambodge (1883).While lieutenant de vaisseau (Lt.) Moura was thrice the… Read more

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Sophie de Mullenheim (b. 1974) is a prolific author of children's books, working with French and American publishers. Among the 200-plus books she authored are The Phantom of the Colosseum; The Big Book of Christians Around the World; The Life of Jesus According to St. Luke; The Catholic Faith… Read more

Chhang Youk (1961, Phnom Penh) is the Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC CAM), the first Cambodian organization (launched in 1997) aiming at bringing "memory, justice and healing"to the Kingdom after the dark years of Khmer Rouge repression and civil war.A survivor of… Read more

Lewis Rowell (b. 1933) is an American professor of Music and Musicology, a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the author of several books and articles on time and rhythm, the music of India, and the philosophy of music. Prof. Rowell was a faculty… Read more

Rainer J."Arjay" Stevens (b. April 1945, Bingen, Germany) is an independent photographer and researcher who has been covering Cambodia's cultural and artistic heritage since the mid1990s.. A bioscientist and pharmacist by trade, Arjay Stevens developed a passion for p, hotography since childhood.… Read more

KONG Vireak is the director of Cambodia National Museum since 2012.After studying and training in archaeology, with five years spent on excavation sites in Angkor area, Vireak Kong undertook anthropological studies in France. Formerly Deputy Director and Director of the Royal University of Fine… Read more

A graduate from Kentucky University and University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shawn Fehrenbach is an archeologist specialized in ceramics.He currently leads PaleoWest, a US firm for high-quality solutions-oriented archaeological consulting services. Read more

Bala Devi Chandrashekar is a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, and a professor of practice in Asian Performing Arts based in the USA, with an iinterdisciplinary approach involving performing, lecturing, teaching and intense research. Prof. Chandrashekar has performed ('Padmavati An Avatar' being… Read more

Dr. Nancy Dowling is a Southeast Asia Art consultant and a retired professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. In 1995 she became a member of a multi-disciplinary team of University of Hawaii and East-West Center scholars, who conducted archaeological fieldwork… Read more

Dr Wanrug Suwanwattana is a Lecturer in French Language and Literature at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, after completing her PhD at the University of Oxford (Merton College). She is working on fin-de-siècle French literature and Indochina, focusing on… Read more

Alfred Meynard (11 Sep 1881, Marseille, France - 12 June 1951, France) was a French publicist and writer close to Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO), a contributor to Courrier ďHaiphong, L'Avenir du Tonkin (of which he was editor-in-chief) , La Revue indochinoise and Extrême-Asie, covering… Read more

Ambassador Julio Armando Jeldres (b. 1 Dec. 1950, Santiago de Chile) was a teenager in faraway Chile when, in 1967, he wrote directly to the King Palace of Cambodia wanting to know more about the fascinating Kingdom at the other end of the world. An epistolary relationship started, until the young… Read more

Emeritus Professor, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, University of London, Elizabeth H. Moore (1948, Washington DC, USA - 13 jan 2024, London) has extensively published on the archaeology of Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.After her retirement, she moved to Yangon,… Read more

Christophe Pottier (1966, Mayenne, France) is an archeologist and architect who worked with EFEO mission to Angkor from 1992 till 1999. Previously, he was involved in the restoration of the Khmer temple of Phanom Wan in Thailand, and the indexation of the Angkor related documentation preserved in… Read more

Donald M. Stadtner (b. 1947) was for many years an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Austin, after receiving his Ph.D in Indian art at the University of California, Berkeley. He was first in Burma in 1979, followed by visits in the 1980's sponsored by the Smithsonian… Read more

May 4, 1950 — August 27, 2019 San FranciscoStephen O. Murray, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based sociologist, anthropologist, and independent scholar, died August 27, 2019 from an aggressive lymphoma. He was born and raised in Minnesota. Steve's publications include studies in sociolinguistics, the… Read more