Virginia Mc Lean Thompson, also Virginia Adloff or Virginia Thompson Adloff (18 Oct 1903, Newtonville, MA - 9 Jan 1990, San Diego, CA, USA) was an American travel writer, international relations analyst, political scientist, translator and author who covered extensively Southeast Asia, publishing… Read more

Joanna S. Duong is an independent Cambodian researcher who escaped the civil war in 1974, emigrated to the US, and came back to Cambodia to launch a party promoting women' s rights in the 1998 elections. Her MD thesis in 2002 dealt with The Role of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodian Society… Read more

Michel Ferlus (1935, France) is a French linguist who has studied the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia. In addition to phonological systems, he also studies writing systems, in particular the evolution of Indic scripts in Southeast Asia.After following classes in ethnology and… Read more

Melbourne-based film director and producer Tim Pek has worked extensively in Cambodia. Read more

A heritage preservation professional, Senthilpavai Kasannian is Doctor in Archeological Conservation, University of Sydney.With a background in Architectural Heritage, Conservation, Cultural Heritage Management and GIS, he was worked many years in India and Australia in a diverse range of… Read more

Gerald Cannon Hickey (17 Dec. 1925- 10 Nov. 2010, Chicago, IL, USA) was an anthropologist who worked in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam. From 1956 through 1973, he conducted ethnographic research in Vietnam; during the 1960s his research was sponsored by the RAND Corporation. He built ties with… Read more

Amalananda (A.) Gosh (3 March 1910, Varanasi, British India – 1981, New York City, USA) was an Indian archaeologist and paleoarchaeologist who conducted several archaeological expeditions around India during the 20th century and authored numerous books and publications, including An Encyclopaedia… Read more

Award-winning photographer La Mo (Ly Min) (24 Apr 1977, Siem Reap) is known for his photo-essays on wildlife, nature and people in Cambodia. He excels at capturing the magical and the sacred in daily life, with a keen eye on religious and folk celebrations. An ambassador for FujifilmX, he… Read more

Tsuda Kojiro 津田浩二郎 is a researcher at the Department of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Japan, who worked on several archaelogical sites in Cambodia. Read more

Félix Honore Sauveur Julien (1 Jan 1824, Toulon, France-1890) was a French navy officer (Lt de vaisseau) and author of biographies related to the history of the French Navy.An alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique (Promotion 1842), where he befriended Doudard de Lagree, he started his naval career on… Read more

A French journalist specialized in art history, Maxime Prodromidès came to research and write a great saga of the rediscovery of Angkor (Angkor, Chronique d'une renaissance, 1997) after contributing as a researcher to the documentary film 'Le secret des temples d'Angkor'. The angle chosen by… Read more

David Brotherson has been conducting research in Cambodia since 2009, settling in Siem Reap in 2011. A member of the Greater Angkor Project (Archaeology research program and international collaboration between the University of Sydney, Cambodia, and France), he has conducted fieldwork and… Read more

After graduating from École du Louvre in 1997, and obtaining a PhD in Khmer Archeology in 2011 at Sorbonne-Paris III University, Jean-Baptiste Chevance has focused his research on the Phnom Kulen Mountain, 25 miles north-east from Angkor proper.Prospecting the mountainous area right after the… Read more

Wesley Clarke is an American registered professional field archaeologist with some forty-five years experience, who conducted his first Southeast Asian research in 1974 in northern Thailand for an undergraduate thesis in anthropology at Prescott College (Arizona). Since 2003, he has been involved… Read more

Architect and archaeologist Georges Alexandre Trouvé (2 Feb. 1902, Nantes - 18 Jul. 1935, Siem Reap) contributed to many majors discoveries in Angkor area, including Prasat Tor, Pre Rup Temple, the foundation steles of Preah Ko and Bakong, sites at the Roluos Group, or the Ak Yum temple on the… Read more

L.A. Sedov [Л.А. Седов] (4 Dec 1934, Moscow-15 Feb 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist and orientalist.After studying translation at Moscow Maurice Thorez Foreign Languages Institute (институт иностранных языков имени Мориса Тореза) and at the USSR Institute of Oriental Studies… Read more

Pascal Medeville (8 Dec. 1962) is a professional translator and a writer specialized in Chinese civilization and language. After studying Chinese and Khmer at INALCO Paris, and spending ten years in mainland China and Taiwan, he relocated to Cambodia, where he leads a professional agency and shares… Read more

Nadine Dalsheimer (van der Tol) is a specialist in Khmer art history, having extensively studied the art collections of the Angkor Conservation (for her doctoral thesis in 1997, under the direction of Bruno Dagens, and for the related book Le corps des dieux) and of the National Museum of Cambodia… Read more

Mă Duānlín (simplified Chinese: 马端临, traditional 馬端臨, Ma Tuan-Lin in French transliteration) (c. 1245, Leping, Jiangxi– c.1322) was a Chinese historian and encyclopaedist who completed between 1273 and 1317, during the Yuan Dynasty, the comprehensive Chinese encyclopedia Wenxian Tongkao in 348… Read more

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926, Newark, USA - 5 April 1997, New York) was an American poet, writer and social activist, initiator of the Beat Generation movement with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and a perceptive explorer of Hinduist and Buddhist cultures, especially after his first… Read more