An Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, USA, Alison Kyra Carter researches the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and… Read more

Padmashree Ranjana Gauhar is a world-renowned Odissi (Indian classical style) dancer and choreographer who authored the book Odissi, Dance of the Divine. She learnt her art from Guru Mayadhar Raut, who gave classical status to this style originating from Odisha (formerly Orissa). A recipient of the… Read more

Marco R. Deyasi is an art historian and faculty member of the Department of Art History, Concordia University (Canada), with his research focusing on the impact of Vietnamese and Cambodian art and culture in France.His doctoral dissertation at Duke University (USA) was titled “French Visual Culture… Read more

Lois Conner (b. 1951, New York City, USA) is an American photographer and professor of photography who has published several acclaimed books on China and Tibet, and has extensively traveled around Asia. Her work is permanently exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC, Lausanne (Switzerland) and… Read more

Prof. Kishor K. Basa is the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha. He was the Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India in 2019-20. He is also the Chairman of Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the… Read more

With Christian Lauersen, co-founder and co-editor of Library Planet, a crowdsourced global resources for libraries around the world. Marie Eiriksson is a member of the IFLA committee. Read more

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Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (9 April 1879, London – 5 Jan. 1972, Exmouth) was a Irish-British illustrious painter known for his portraits (including those of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and for his graceful depictions of Southeast Asian princesses and female dancers.Born into… Read more

Col. Jacob T. Child (19 Jan 1832, Philadelphia - 19 Oct 1905, Richmond, Missouri, USA) was an American diplomat and publicist.United States Minister Resident in Bangkok from 1884 to 1888, he later portrayed Siam and the Siamese court in his book The Pearl of Asia. He also served as US… Read more

Taizo Ichinose 一ノ瀬 泰造 (1 Nov. 1947, Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan - 29 Nov. 1973, Siem Reap, Cambodia) was a Japanese war photographer killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers while heading to Angkor Wat from embattled Siem Reap city on November 29, 1973. Some pictures and press articles about Taizo are… Read more

Francesco Brighenti is an independent researcher specializing in South and Southeast Asian studies, based in Venice (Italy).His Phd (History) thesis at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (India), dealt with Śakti cult in Orissa [Odisha] (1997) and was later expanded into a book (Shakti Cult in Orissa,… Read more

Harry Leonard Shorto (19 Sep 1919 – 30 July 1995) was a British philologist and linguist who specialized on the Mon language and Mon-Khmer studies, teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, GB, until he retired in 1984. While he was attending Cambridge… Read more

Ing Phousera (artist's name Séra) (b. 1961, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a visual artist who has been exploring the themes of exile, civil war, social amnesia and remembrance. Escaping the Khmer Rouge storming Phnom Penh in 1975, he took refuge in France with her mother and two siblings, while their… Read more

Phuoeng Sophean ភឿង សុភ័ណ្ឌ (23 April 1958, Siem Reap - 6 Oct. 2020, Phnom Penh) was a Cambodian architect and statesman who initiated the restoration of the Iron Palace at the Phnom Penh Royal Palace in 1991. A son of a renowned Siem Reap architect, he developed a special interest in architectural… Read more

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895) was an English barrister and politican, the auhor of a two-volume History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire (1879) that was lauded as "admirable" at the time for its… Read more

Angkor Database - មូលដ្ឋានទិន្នន័យអង្គរ - 吴哥数据库 All you want to know about Angkor and the Ancient Khmer civilization, how it keeps attracting worldwide attention and permeates modern Cambodia. Indexed and reviewed books, online documentation, photo and film collections, enriched authors'… Read more

Paul François Joseph Le Faucheur (31 Oct. 1833, Pondichéry (Puducherry), French Indies - 8 May 1874, Phnom Penh) was a French Navy officer, an entrepreneur and and businessman who became close to HM King Norodom I of Cambodia in the 1860s-1870s, and was involved in several dealings regarding the… Read more

Author and artist Sappho Marchal-Brébion (1904, Paris - 2000), the daughter of French archeologist and Angkor Wat Conservator Henri Marchal, was the first researcher to study, document in drawings and count the numerous female stone figures in Angkor Wat. Sappho (sometimes spelled Sapho) Marchal… Read more

Initially a math teacher, Alain Daniel (1940-2020, France) became a leading expert in Khmer language and translation after his first trip to Cambodia, in 1965, as the winner of Le Grand Voyage, a contest sponsored by the French TV public channel and Air France. Studying Khmer language and… Read more

Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915, Reading, UK – 5 December 2000, Ithaca, N.Y., USA) was a British academic, historian and author who did pioneering work on the ancient Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, following the groundbreaking studies by George Coedès. He was also a Malayan civil servant and… Read more