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

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (b. 1944, Basel) is Professor Emerita of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, and a former curator at the Ethnographic Museum in Basel, Switzerland, who has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Papua… Read more

Sylvia Nam [or Sylvia Geehae Nam] is a California-based interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the study of legal systems in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts, examining how law and governance intersect in moments of transition, an Assistant Professor of anthropology with a PhD in City… Read more

Thomas Kolnberger (b. 5 March 1968, Salzburg, Austria) is a Research Associate in History at University of Luxemburg specializing in Historical and Urban Geography, Sepulchral Culture and Military History.He studied history at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna (Austria), with his doctoral… Read more

Richard A. Engelheardt is an American heritage conservation expert, anthropologist and archeologist who served as UNESCO Regional Advisor [Asia-Pacific] from 1994 to 2008, and Senior Advisor from 2008 to 2010, becoming a leading force in the international cooperation for the restoration of Angkor… Read more

Mattani Mojdara Rutnin [Rattanin] มัทนี โมชดารา รัตนิน (b. 1st May 1937) is a former professor of drama and literature at Thammasat University, Bangkok, a former dancer trained in Thai classical dance, Western ballet, and modern dance from childhoo, an actress and theater director who worked with… Read more

Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier (6 Feb. 1877, Marseille, France - 15 Jan. 1934, in a plane crash near Corbigny (Nièvre), France), was a colonial administrator in French Indochina since 1908 and Governor-General [gouverneur général] of French Indochina from 4 Oct. 1926 to 16 May 1927 (acting for… Read more

Denys Lombard (4 Feb. 1938, Marseille – 8 Jan. 1998, Paris, France) was a French historian and researcher specializing in South East Asia, in particular Indonesia, who headed École Français d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1993 to 1998.He initiated his career as EFEO member in Jakarta (1966-1969)… Read more

Richard "Dick" Halliburton (9 Jan. 1900, Brownsville, Tennessee, U.S.– presumed dead in the Pacific Ocean after 24 March 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who, after running a successful publishing career, disappeared at sea while attempting to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon,… Read more

Ewing Galloway (6 Dec. 1880, Little Dixie, Kentucky, US - 23 June 1953, Henderson, KY) was an American journalist and the founder of the Galloway [or Ewing Galloway] Agency in 1920, the largest photo agency in America before World War II.First a lawyer and city prosecutor in Kentucky, he switched… Read more