Jean-Michel Gallet (b. 18 November 1947, La Bassée, France) is a consultant in agricultural development who has been working for French NGOs in Africa, Eastern Europe and across Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia) for nearly four decades, visiting Cambodia for the first time in… Read more

Nithi Aeurisvongse นิธิ เอียวศรีวงศ์ [or Nidhi ‘Īaosīwong, Nidhi Eeosewong] (23 May 1940, Chiang Mai – 7 Aug. 2023, Chiang Mai, Thailand) was a Thai historian, writer, and political commentator whose research focused on the way Thai power structure evolved "from "absolute monarchy to a monarchy… Read more

Pierre [Peter] Fabricius (23 Apr. 1912, Berlin, Germany -20 Dec. 1988, Moulins, France) was a Sanskritist, Indianist and Khmerologist who spent 24 years in Cambodia (1950-1974) as an educator and independent researcher.After three years at Heidelberg University studying Sanskrit under Prof.… Read more

Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern, known as H. Kern or Henrik Kern (6 April 1833, Poerworedjo [Purworejo], Central Java – 4 July 1917, Utrecht, The Netherlands) was a Dutch linguist, comparative philologist and Sanskritist.Born in the Central Java province of then Dutch East Indies, he was six when his… Read more

Henri Dufour (19 Sept. 1870, Nancy, France - 1932 ?, Nancy) was a French architect, visual artist and explorer who was one of the first Western experts to study the Bayon monument at the turn of the 20th century alongside Charles Carpeaux, Henri Parmentier and Jean Commaille. At Nancy (Eastern… Read more

Paul Demiéville (13 Sept. 1894, Lausanne, Switzerland – 23 March 1979, Paris, France) was a Swiss-French Sinologist and Orientalist known for his studies of the Dunhuang manuscripts, his contribution to Buddhist studies, his translations of Chinese poetry, and his role as co-editor - J. J. L.… Read more

Dr. François-Jules Harmand (23 Oct. 1845, Saumur, France - 14 Jan. 1921, Poitiers, France) was a French physician, soldier, explorer, naturalist, colonial administrator, diplomat, a member of the Commission archéologique aux ruines du Cambodge (1875-1877), and the president of the Paris Société de… Read more

Denise Colomb (1 April 1902, Paris – 1 Jan. 2004, Paris) was a French photographer celebrated for her portraits of mid-20th-century artists, and for her "poetic-realist" photography capturing the daily life of numerous countries, from India to the West Indies and the Lofoten Islands (Norway),… Read more

Maurizio Peleggi is a professor at the Department of History, National University of Singapore (NUS) since 2017, and a researcher focusing on the cultural dimension of Southeast Asian modernity, visual and material culture, history and practice of Heritage Conservation, museology and Thailand's… Read more

Hedwige Multzer o'Naghten is an independent researcher specializing in Khmer and Buddhist art history who has studied Buddhist iconography in the Angkorian temples initially under the direction of archaeologist Bruno Dagens. After completing her doctorate at the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne… Read more

Reginald Le May [or le May] (6 Jan. 1885, Wadhurst, Sussex - 22 Jan. 1972, Uckfield, Sussex) was a British consular officer and adviser to the Siamese government based in Siam (modern Thailand) from 1908 to 1932, a collector of coins, stamps and Siamese Art fluent in the Thai language, and a… Read more

Dr. Sok Udom Deth ដេត សុខឧត្តម is the COO of the Paragon Education Co., Ltd and a full Professor of International Relations at Paragon International University (formerly Zaman University), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, specializing in modern Southeast Asian Studies.With a B.A. in Sociology, Boğaziçi… Read more

Claudine Salmon (b. 1938, Bruyeres, France) is an independent researcher specializing Chinese and Chinese diaspora studies, after her retirement from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2007.She has published extensively on Chinese sources, Chinese travelers in early and… Read more

Im Sokrithy អុឹម សុខរិទ្ធី (b. 30 April 1972, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian archaeologist and historian, a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, (since 2002), a Deputy Director Apsara Authority (since 2012), and a researcher on a range of subjects related to the… Read more

Meas Sreyneath is a MA student completing advanced studies in the joint cursus Université des Moussons/INALCO/Project Manusastra at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh. Specializing in history and archaeology of metallurgy, she joined in the 2018 and 2012 Field Research Crews for Pteah… Read more

Chris John Baker (b. 3 Jan. 1948) is a British writer living in Thailand since the 1980s, the honorary editor of the Journal of the Siam Society (JSS), and the author of numerous books related to Thailand economics, history and politics, most of them in collaboration with his wife and collaborator… Read more

Ashley Thompson is specialist in Southeast Asian Cultural Histories, with particular expertise on Cambodian classical and pre-modern arts and literatures - with additional work on the contemporary period -, and the Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at the School of Oriental and African… Read more

Anthony Thomas Kirsch [A. Thomas Kirsch] (1930, Syracuse, NY, USA - 17 March 1999, Ithaca, NY, USA) was an American anthropologist specializing in Southeast Asia, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University, and a pioneer in Thailand ethnic minorities studies.After serving in… Read more

Francis de Miomandre [born Francis Durand, penname taken from his mother's name Thérèse de Miomandre] (22 May 1880, Tours - 1 Aug 1959, Saint-Brieuc, France) was a prolific writer, novelist, noted translator from Spanish, and art critic. A precocious writer, he co-founded with a group of friends… Read more

Walter E. J. Tips is an independent historian specializing in the history of South China, Siam, Cambodia, as well as the documentation of photographic works related to Southeast Asia, a writer, translator of reference books (often for the first time into the Engish language) and illustrator.It was… Read more