Jean-Marie Cambacérès (b. 5 June 1949, Nîmes, France) is a French top civil servant, politician and bussinessman who was close to the two socialist French presidents France elected in the 1980s and 2010s, François Mitterrand (26 Oct. 1916 – 8 Jan.1996, pdt. 1981-1995) and François Hollande (b. 12… Read more

Sudarshan [or Sudharshan] Seneviratne (1949-2024) was a pioneer scholar in Sri Lankan history, archaeology, and heritage research.After completing his education at Ananda College, Colombo, Seneviratne went on to Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India), obtaining his PhD with his doctoral thesis… Read more

Comte, later Marquis Ludovic Hébert de Beauvoir (29 March 1846, Brussels - 10 December 1929, Paris) was a French traveler and explorator who launched in a two-year travel round the world in 1865-1867, when he was only 19.  Along with his childhood friend Prince Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre… Read more

Frances Gouda (June 8, 2019, Harlem, The Netherlands) was a Professor of Comparative History and Postcolonial History in American universities, and Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the Belle van Zuylen Institute of the University of Amsterdam from 1999 to her death.Fluent in Dutch, English,… Read more

Claude Martin (b. 24 Sept. 1944, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) is a French diplomat, Ambassador of France (honorific title granted on 2 Oct. 2006), former ambassador to China (1990-1993) and Germany (1999-2007), who was instrumental in the international mediation to solve Cambodia's post-war… Read more

Julia Clancy-Smith is a Regent's Professor of History at the University of Arizona. In 2010, she was awarded the AHA’s William Gilbert Award for Best Article on Teaching History, and received in 2021 the WHOME (Women Historians of the Middle East) mentoring award for her work with graduate… Read more

Evelise Bruneau is a French art historian who succeeded Pierre Baptiste as curator for the Southeast Asian collection at Musée Guimet in July 2025. Baptiste, general-curator of cultural heritage, had been in charge of that collection since 1996. With a diploma from Ecole du Louvre (2001) and a MA… Read more

Jean Noury (1935, Lucé, Eure-et-Loir, France - 2021, Chartres, France) was a French postcard collector who prospected commercial and personal archives to find visual documents reflecting French colonies and the colonial system, particulary across former French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and… Read more

Terry Bennett is a London-based expert on the history of photography in east and Southeast Asia, as well as collector of early photographs from Asia. He has published numerous books and articles, particularly in relation to photographers active in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,… Read more

Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo [Englicized John Albert de Mandelslo] (15 May 1616, Schönberg, Mecklenburg - 16 May 1644, Paris) was a German traveler who took part in the third Duke of Holstein's embassy (commercial mission) to Muscovy (Grand Principalty of Moscow) and Persia (mod. Iran) in 1635-6… Read more

Eileen Edna Le Poer Power (9 Jan. 1889, Parkdale, Dunham Massey, England - 8 Aug. 1940, London) was a British medievalist and economic historian who became in 1920 the first woman awarded the Albert Kahn Traveling Scholarship, a grant related to the project Archives of the Planet, launched in 1908… Read more

Albert Sallet (1877, La Souterraine - 1948, Samatan, France) was a French physician who served in the Navy in French Indochina, a botanist who studied traditional medicine in Vietnam and Laos, a researcher in Cham history, a numismatic collector and museum curator in Vietnam and in France, as well… Read more

Albert Heinrich Stönner (30 May 1872, Bremen, Germany - 13 Dec. 1931) was a German Indologist and ethnologist specializing who studied Vedic scriptures, religious art in Central India and, after staying in Siam and Cambodia from 1907 onwards, literature and art of Ancient Southeast Asia.After… Read more

Koizumi Junko 小泉 順子 is a Professor of Modern Thai History and Historiography at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Japan), a specialist in Thai history from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, with publications covering issues such as ethnic minorities,… Read more

Tan Bounsuy [or Bun Suy] is a Cambodian researcher in ecology, biology and biodiversity, a former Professor of Pedology and a Deputy Director-General of APSARA National Authority (ANA) since 2004.After obtaining his baccalaureate in 1957, Dr. Tan Bonsuy followed higher studies in France at Institut… Read more

Dr. Dorian Q Fuller is a researcher and professor (since 2000) in archaeobotany at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL), and the Joint Director (since 2012) of the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, the institute co-established by UCL and Beijing… Read more

Jane Kramer (b. 7 Aug. 1938, Providence, RI, USA) is an American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964. where she wrote the column "Letter from Europe" since 1981.A graduate of Vassar College (1959) and Columbia University, (1961), she was the founder of the magazine… Read more

The Bangkok Literature and Fine Arts Department กองวรรณคดีและประวัติศาสตร์ กรมศิลปากร is a section of the Thailand National Library dedicated to the preservation and edition of ancient Siamese and Thai manuscripts. Note: Since the 2025 border tension between Thailand and Cambodia, access to its… Read more

Richard Cabot Howland (b. 11 April 1934, New York) served as an American career diplomat and intelligence officer since 1960, and was on rotation in Phnom Penh from 1961 to 1963, when he was involved in the Thai-Cambodia negotiations related to the Preah Vihear temple and the outlining of the… Read more