A USA-based Vietnamese blogger, independent researcher and gifted polymath, Tao Babe likes to share online astonishingly well-documented historic and metaphysical essays, wise considerations on her status of citizen of the world with a strong sense of identity, and an ongoing questioning of… Read more

Émile Gsell (30 Dec 1838, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France - 16 Oct. 1879, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh Ville,Vietnam) was a self-taught French photographer who produced among the earliest photographs of Angkor Wat when he joined the Mekong Exploration Expedition led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée… 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

Johannes Bronkhorst (born 17 July 1946, Schiedam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism. Emeritus professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at University of Lausanne (he retired in 2011), he studied Mathematics, Physics, and… Read more

Amina Ahmed Kar আমিনা আহমেদ কর (20 Feb 1930, Calcutta, British India -21 Jan 1994, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India) was a talented art historian and one of the first women abstract artists in India.The daughter of a famous dentist surgeon and Bengali politician, she was a precocious and brilliant… Read more

Dr Devangana Desai (1937, Bombay (now Mumbai)) is a prominent historian and researcher of early Indian art, in particular the iconic and narrative representations of female and male principles, whose essays on erotic art have been proven to be groundbreaking. Born in a Vaishnava family, she… Read more

Geffrey Corbett Green is an independent researcher who has been exploring the Western cultural representations of Bali and Southeast Asia during the inter-war period. His PhD thesis at Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) in June 2002 was Walter Spies, tourist art and… Read more

Dr. Shri Krishna Murari Srivastava (21 Sept 1927, Allahabad, India) is a leading Indian archaelogist who led the Special Archeological Preservation Mission to Angkor from 1982 to 1991, and was credited with the discovery-identification of the lost town of Kapilavatsu, where Lord Buddha spent the… Read more

Michèle H.S. Demandt is a post-doctorate researcher at Jinan University (China), specializing in ancient regional trade archaeology. She obtained her PhD in Ancient History from Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2017. Read more

Christophe Gargiulo (b. 19 Sep 1962, New Caledonia) is a film director, photographer and writer based in Cambodia since 2005, who has worked on and produced numerous films, TV programs and documentaries on cultural and ecological issues for the NGO Agir pour le Cambodge, WorldFish and the European… Read more

Colin Grafton (b. London, England, 1947) is a traveller-photographer who came to Asia overland in 1969. He taught English in Laos from 1970 to 1972 and in Cambodia from 1973 to 1975, leaving Phnom Penh a few days before the takeover by the Khmer Rouge. He was able to photograph one of the last… Read more

Jean Ajalbert (pen name Ajalbert) (10 June 1863, Levallois-Perret - 14 Jan 1947, Cahors, France) was a journalist, lawyer and writer active in French Indochina from 1903 to the Second World War. He famously criticized the action of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), arguing that the school… Read more

Rainer J."Arjay" Stevens (b. April 1945, Bingen, Germany) is an independent photographer and researcher who has been covering Cambodia's cultural and artistic heritage since the mid1990s.. A bioscientist and pharmacist by trade, Arjay Stevens developed a passion for p, hotography since childhood.… Read more

Clotilde Chivas-Baron (5 Sept 1876, Chatte, Isère, France - 23 Dec. 1956, Chatte) was a French writer who authored several books about Vietnam and Indochina in the years 1910s-1930s, drawing from her life in the countryside near Hue with husband Michel Baron. She had arrived in Vietnam in 1909,… Read more

Jon Otner (1960, Great Neck, Long Island, USA) is an American photographer who has extensively covered Asia, in particular its sacred monuments and spiritual life. From Where Every Breath Is A Prayer, A photographic pilgrimage into the spiritual heart of Asia to Angkor, Celestial Temples of the… 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

With a PhD in Asian and African Studies (2017) from Sapienza University, Roma, Italy, Paolo E. Rosati has published a double special issue on Tantra for Religions of South Asia (14/1–2) in 2020, and several contributions on the yoni cult at Kāmākhyā (Assam, India), the temple devoted to the Shakta… Read more

Heidrun Schenk is a researcher with the German Archaeological Institute (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI)), involved in a South India and transmaritime pottery research projected associating the Archaeological Department of Sri Lanka and the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European… Read more

Woramate Malasart is a Thai researcher and doctorate candidate at University of Otago specializing in the the study of Buddhist manuscripts from Southeast Asia, in particular those written in Khom and Dhamma scripts. His research is focusing on the “The Dhammakāya Genre and Its Historical and… Read more

Ferdinand Tugnot de Lanoye (1810, Gray, France –1870, Paris) was a French writer specializing in travel writing.Not an explorer himself, he (with A. Hervé) published numerous books drawing from the diaries and memoirs of famous travelers, such as:Voyages dans les glaces du Pôle arctique à la… Read more