Léa Lafugie (11 Feb 1890, Paris 7 - 18 June 1972, Paris 16) was a French explorer, artist and writer, one of the first solo traveler women to sojourn in Tibet, and whose body of work reflects her lasting interest in China and Southeast Asia.After studying at Paris Ecole des Arts decoratifs (School… 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

Firmin André Salles (5 Sept. 1860, Tarbes - 2 Feb. 1929, Paris) was a French Navy officer,colonial administrator, explorer and prolific photographer who captured daily life scenes in Annam, Cochinchina, Tonkin and Cambodia from 1896 to 1898. Later on, he lived and worked in the French Indies.As a… Read more

Pierre-Francois Sauvaire Comte [Earl, later Marquis] de Barthélémy (10 May 1870, Paris, France - 28 Oct. 1940) was a French explorer and writer who headed the Mission Barthélemy to Laos in 1894-6.After attempting a trip around the world in 1892-3, he joined the French Army in Annam [Northern… Read more

Keo Manivanna is a Laotian historian. We're looking for biographical information. Read more

Dr. Chandramani Singh चंद्रमणि सिंह (5 Apr. 1940, Banaras (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India - 15 May 2022, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) was an Indian art historian, textile expert, writer and a museum archivist based in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Associated with Banaras Hindu University and Prakrit Bahrti… Read more

Kang Heejung is the Director of the Institute for East Asian Studies and professor of the Graduate Program in Southeast Asian Studies at Sogang University, Korea, specializing in Buddhist Art History of East Asia and Southeast Asia.With a Ph.D. degree in Art History at Seoul National University,… Read more

Matti Kummu is Associate professor at the Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, specializing in Hydrology, Geoinformatics (GIS), Climatology, Irrigation and Water Management, local scale challenges and opportunities on water-energy-food nexus, particularly in Southeast… Read more

Luke Carney is a graduate student at University of Leeds, East Asian Studies, UK. Read more

Prof. Radha Krishna Chaudhary [sometimes Choudhary] (15 Feb 1924 – 15 March 1985) was an Indian historian and writer, specializing in historical and archaeological studies on Bihar as well as on Maithili literature. A professor at Ganesh Dutt College, Begusarai, Bihar, he was also a member of the… Read more

Guillaume-Henri [or Guillaume-Henry or Guillaume] Monod (1 January 1875, London, UK - 30 March 1946, Aix en Provence, France) was a French civil administrator, geologist and writer who spent nearly 30 years in Cambodia, collecting Cambodian folktales and authoring essays on Cambodian language and… Read more

Robert Philpotts (b. 1947) is a British author and illustrator who visited Cambodia in the early 1990s. … Read more

Benoy Krishen Behl (b. 10 September 1956, New Delhi) is an Indian documentary filmmaker, art historian and photographer celebrated for his work in documenting the art heritage of India and Asia, including more than 50,000 photographs of Asian monuments and 140 films. Initially known for his… Read more

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (29 Aug 1928, near Dhaka [now Bangladesh] - 16 March 2014, Dhaka) was a French Indianist and Sanskritist of Indian origin, a specialist in Ancient Cambodia epigraphy and history.Educated in Calcutta [Kolkata] and at the Sanskrit University of Varanasi, he came to Paris in… Read more

Christopher Pym (13 Jan 1929, Bristol, UK - 1 Dec 2001, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK) was a writer, a researcher on Cambodia's history and culture, and a local politician challenging the two-party system.A National Service officer during World War II, he was initially sent to Cambodia by… Read more

Gwendolyn Wright (b. 1946, Chicago, USA) is an architectural historian and author, a professor of architecture and art history at Columbia University since 1983, and one of the hosts of the PBS television series History Detectives. Although she specializes in US architectural history and urban… Read more

Alfred Salmony (10 Nov 1890, Cologne [Köln], Germany - 29 Apr 1958, Atlantic Ocean, heart attack aboard theIle-de-France ocean liner) was a museum curator and professor specializing in East Asian art, art of the Eurasian steppes, and Chinese jades, who also studied Southeast Asian art during his… Read more

Victor Lieberman is an American historian specializing in Southeast Asian History, particular Burma (Myanmar), the Marvin B. Becker Collegiate Professor of History and the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Asian and Comparative History at the University… Read more

Ly Team Teng លីធាមតេង 李添丁 [also Li Dham Ten] (15 May 1930, Kompong Siem District - 1978, captive of the Khmer Rouge) was a Sino-Khmer researcher and author who wrote many essays and novels that became Cambodian literature classics, and authored the first Khmer translation of Zhou Daguan's 13th… Read more

Jawaharlal Nehru, Pandit Nehru (14 Nov. 1889, Allahabad, India - 27 May 1964, New Delhi) was an Indian anti-colonial activist and statesman, the figure head leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, the first Prime Minister of independent India from 1947 to his death in… Read more