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

Émile Arthur Soldi or Soldi-Colbert (1846, Paris, France - 1906, Rome, Italy), was a medalist, sculptor, and archaeology and art historian. A French citizen of Danish descent (his real patronym was Soldyck, from a Danish Jewish family), Soldi received the Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving at… Read more

Nguyễn Thị Huýnh Phượng is a Vietnamese social science researcher specialized in the history and social dynamics of the communities of the Mekong Delta, and currently Director of the Mekong Institute of Science and Technology Application and Training. A lecturer at Can Tho University, she has been… Read more

Arlo Griffiths (b. 1976, New York USA) is an Indologist and Sanskritist specialized in ancient epigraphy and philology of India and Southeast Asia, and a member of EFEO since 2008, first based in Jakarta, Indonesia, then Directeur d'Etudes EFEO in Lyon, France, for the program "The Domestication of… Read more

Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung (b. 1959) is a researcher with the Department of Archaeology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, specializing in Champa history and archaeology.Amongst her recent publications: “Cổ Luỹ - Phú Thọ trong bối cảnh khảo cổ học… Read more

Thach Toan (b. 1935, Tràvinh, Mekong Delta) is a historian of Khmer civilization, formerly a physician Professor at Phnom Penh Faculty of Medicine, and a minister in various governments of the Khmer Republic era, between 1970 and 1975.According to some scholars, even if "the Americans, officials… Read more

Katherine Neustadt is an American food writer and researcher who authored several books, including Clambake: A History and Celebration of an American Tradition. Read more

Nicholas 'Nick' Coffill (b. Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia) is a narrator of social history who has used photography as a medium of story-telling for over thirty-five years.After studying stage design at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA, Australia) in 1976, he furthered his… Read more

Lindsay French is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island, USA. She graduated from Harvard University. Read more

Edmond Jean Guy Henry-Biabaud, pen name Henry-Biabaud (7Jan 1913, Romorantin, France - 21 June 2006) was a French automobile engineer who visited Indochina in 1937 and 1938 due to 'the contengencies of his career', according to a short introduction to one of the many republications of his Deux ans… Read more

Amir Dan Aczel (6 Nov 1950, Haifa, Israel- 26 Nov 2015, Nimes, France) was an Israeli-born American mathermatician, lecturer in the history of mathematics and science, and author of books accessible to a large public who researched in particular the origins of "0". He has recounted how, while… Read more

Jean Dorsenne or 'Dorsennus' [pen-name of Étienne Troufleau] (1892, Constantine, Algeria - 6 March 1944, Buchenwald concentration camp) was a French reporter and novelist who stayed in Tahiti from 1922 to 1926, traveled around Indochina during the 1930s, published many essays, biographies, history… Read more