Stephen A. Murphy is historian of art and archaeology specializing in early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He particularly studies the period spanning the… Read more

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (5 March 1866, Roehamption, London – 18 Dec 1941, Roehamption) was a British colonial administrator and a writer who devoted a novel, The Downfall of the Gods, to Angkor and the ancient Khmer civilization. The son of a distinguished British Army general, he opted to join… Read more

Khun Samen [or Samén] ឃុន សាម៉េន (b. 9 Sept. 1948, Prey Veng Province) is a Cambodian Professor of Khmer Art History and Museology who was the director of Phnom Penh National Museum (now National Museum of Cambodia) from 1996 to 2007, acting as a curator of the collection before. He was succeeded… Read more

René Morizon was a French civil administrator who wrote a monography on Cambodia for the Paris 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale. His doctorate thesis dealt with La Province cambodgienne de Pursat [The Cambodian province of Pursat] (Université de Paris, Faculté des lettres, 1936). This work… Read more

Ulrich Theobald is a German researcher on Chinese history specializing in the economic, military, and administrative history of late imperial China, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany since 2016.One of his current projects investigates the impact of… Read more

Edith Mary Hinchley née Mason [also known as Ms. J.W. Hinchley] (23 Jan. 1870, Chelsea, London - 16 Oct. 1940, in The Blitz, London) was a British painter, genealogist, suffragist, and humanist who spent three years in Bangkok, 1904-1907.A noted student at the Royal College of Art, she met a male… Read more

Pierre Mathieu Théodore Guesde (9 May 1870, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean=) - 1955) was a French colonial administrator from 1896 to 1914, Resident-superieur of Indochina for a few months in 1914, and Commissioner for Indochina at the 1922 (initially scheduled for 1916) Marseille… Read more

[Ms] Chan Bophal ចន្ទ បូផល is a Cambodian writer and translator, author in 1970-1971 of the first translation into Khmer of Roland Meyer's partly autobiographical novel Saramani, danseuse khmèr (1919). Initially serialized in the newspaper ប្រយោជន៍ខ្មែរ [Brayoch Khmer, 'Khmer Benefit'], the… Read more

Roland Théodore Emile Meyer (10 July 1889, Moscow, Russia - 9 Sept. 1976, Paris 13) was a French colonial civil servant and novelist who described the life at Phnom Penh Royal Palace and the world of the Royal Ballet dancers in Saramani, danseuse khmère (1919), living in Cambodia (1909-1920) and in… Read more

Charles Gravelle (b. Charles Jules Paul Darnis-Gravelle, 21 Sept 1864, Courtenay, France - 26 Oct 1929, Phnom Penh) was a French lawyer, the first director of Banque de l'Indochine (Phnom Penh branch), a patron of Cambodian arts who supported George Groslier in the founding of the Albert Sarrault… Read more

Albert Tissandier (1 Oct. 1839, Paris – 5 Sept 1906, Jurançon, France) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist who founded with brother Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) [1] the popular science magazine La Nature in 1873, the two being intrepid balloonists and… Read more

William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (b. 20 March 1965, Scotland, UK) is an acclaimed historian and art historian, a curator and broadcaster, and a co-founder and co-director of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, Rajasthan, India). He lives with his wife and three children on a farm… Read more

Comte Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol Lias (4 July 1840, Seix (Ariège), France - 6 May 1914, Paris) was a French explorer, naturalist and travel writer who visited Java and Sumatra in 1876, then Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia and Malaysia in 1884. He used to take photographs of the places he visited.Born… Read more

Robert Heine-Geldern [Robert Freiherr von Heine-Geldern before 1919] (16 July 1885, Grub, Wienerwald - 25 May 1968, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist and prehistorian specializing in Southeast Asia, a professor of ethnology and archaeology of India and… Read more

Eugène Pujarniscle ( 16 May 1881, Solliès-Toucas, France - 15 Oct. 1951, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French educator and novelist who offered his own definition of "colonial literature".A secondary school teacher in France, he resolved to leave for French Indochina in 1912, where he taught… Read more

Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France - 28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Madeleine Colani (13 Aug 1866, Strasbourg - June 1943, Hanoi) was a French educator, geologist and archaeologist who explored the northern Vietnamese of Hòa Bình in the 1929s, and published in 1930 the first comprehensive study on the megaliths of Upper Laos, cataloging around ten thousand of these… Read more

Pierre Singaravélou (b. 18 Jan 1977, Bordeaux, France) is a French historian, a British Academy Global Professor of History at King's College, London, a Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the director of the Center for Asian History (Sorbonne). He specializes… Read more

Rémi Abad is a professional photographer and journalist based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.In 2022, he joined Angkor Travel Photography, a photo tour and workshop agency launched in 2012 by photographers Alessandro Vannucci, Régis Binard and Chris Cusick. Themed tours ('Hidden Angkor', 'Secrets of… Read more

Bertrand Porte (b. 1961, Lyon, France) is an art conservation expert and museologist who has been working with the National Museum of Cambodia (NMC) since 1996, and contributed to the development of the Champassak Museum (Muang Champassak ຈໍາປາສັກ, Laos) since 2010.After initially studying land-use… Read more