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 an Associate Professor of International Relations and the Rector of Paragon International University (formerly Zaman University), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, specializing in modern Southeast Asian Studies.With a B.A. in Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey… 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

Karl-Heinz Golzio (15 March 1947 - 3 April 2023, Bonn, Germany) was a German Indologist and a religion and archaeology historian who developed a special interest in Cambodian studies after meeting in 1999 Sanskrit scholar Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, then visiting professor at the Department of… Read more

John Guy (b. 1949) is a maritime archaeologist, international museum curator, advisor to UNESCO archaeological preservation programs, an Indologist and art historian specializing in Hindu-Buddhist sculpture, woven textiles, and South and Southeast Asian art.A senior curator of Indian art at the… Read more

Himansu Bhusan (H.B.) Sarkar was an Indian historian specializing in South India, Southeast Asian and Indonesian studies, a disciple of Rabindranath Tagore and R.C. Majumdar, an epigraphist and history researcher with Dacca University - modern times Dhaka University ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, Bangladesh,… Read more

Nasir Abdoul-Carime is a France-based historian specializing in Cambodian and Southeast Asian history. In 1997, Abdoul-Carime launched the Association d'échanges et de formation pour les études khmères (AEFEK) on the occasion of a meeting at UNESCO Paris with two generations of Khmerologists. Seven… Read more

Thongchai Winichakul ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล (b. 1st Oct. 1957, Bangkok), is a Thai historian and researcher in Southeast Asian studies, Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA), and Emeritus Research Fellow with the Institute of Developing Economies… Read more

Soung Sokro ​សួង សុខរ៉ូ ​is a Cambodian teacher in archaeology and anthropology, a civil servant at the Center for Cultural Research and Innovation, and the executive director of the Khmer cultural promotion organization Yosothor.He studied archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom… Read more

Jeannine Auboyer (6 Aug 1912, Paris - 6 Feb 1990, Sèvres (92), France) was a French Indologist and art historian specializing in the classical arts of South and Southeast Asia. From 1965 to 1980 she was the chief-curator of the Musée Guimet in Paris.A daughter of commissaire-priseur [auctioneer]… Read more

Soth Polin [also Suddh Pulin] សុទ្ធ ប៉ូលីន( b. 1943, Chroy Thmar village, Kompong Cham, Cambodia) is a Cambodian writer who published to great acclaim his first novel, A Meaningless Life, in 1965, during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era, a renowned journalist who worked with Khmer Ekareach (The… Read more

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