Grace Gallatin Thompson-Seton (28 Jan 1872, Sacramento, California - 19 Mar 1959, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American writer and suffragist who visited Angkor in 1936, part of a Southeast Asia grand tour she narrated in her 1938 book, Poison Arrows. The adventurous, free-spirited Grace published… Read more

Tran Quoc Nam (1962, Phnom Penh) is a freelance researcher based in Saigon. His main interest is history and language in relation to exchanges between the Vietnamese and the Khmer cultural spheres. When his family was expelled from Cambodia in 1970 due to the 'Cap Duon' policy implemented by the… Read more

Michel Ferlus (1935 - 11 March 2024, France) was a French linguist who studied the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia. In addition to phonological systems, he also studied writing systems, in particular the evolution of Indic scripts in Southeast Asia.After following classes in… Read more

Françoise Denoyelle is a French historian, professor and photography curator. After her doctoral thesis in 1991 (Le marché et les usages de la photographie à Paris pendant l’entre-deux-guerres), she taught at the School of Photography Louis-Lumière, and coordinated the collective of photographers… Read more

Alain Schnapp (18 sep 1946, Paris, France) is an archaeologist and historian, Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology at the Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). His main interests are Greek iconography and cultural history of Antiquity. He has been visiting scholar or visiting professor in… Read more

Huang Lele (14 July 1988, Nanjing, China) is a visual artist and curator, and apost-doctoral researcher in Buddhist Art with Peking University, China.She has particularly studied The Gender Transformation of Avalokitesvara in Sui Tang, A Parallel Study Between India and China (Univision Books, New… Read more

Pattaratorn Chirapravati is a Thai scholar, Professor of Asian Art History and Curatorial Studies and Program Vice Director of Asian Studies at California State University, USA. Ms. Chirapravati, who is the great-great-granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, has published numerous books… Read more

Pitchaya Soomjinda พิชญา โสมจินดา is Associate Professor of Art History, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. A former student of Achan Piriya Krairiksh-- a pioneer in Thai arts studies -- at Thammasat University, he focuses on Khmer art and iconography, and on the premodern and transitional periods of… Read more

Prof. Ujjwala Chakradeo is the vice-chancellor of SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, India. An architect by trade, she has taught architecture in various institutions -- in particular serving as Head of the Department, Department of Architecture (1997-2002) and Department of House and Interior Design… Read more

Dr. Ujjwala Anand Palsuley (b 29 Apr, Maharashtra, India) is a Conservation Architect in the field for over 20 years as a Practitioner, Researcher, and Academician, who has worked on various World Heritage Sites for UNESCO’s nominations and conducted Workshops, Research & Projects in 16… Read more

Bala Devi Chandrashekar is a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, and a professor of practice in Asian Performing Arts based in the USA, with an iinterdisciplinary approach involving performing, lecturing, teaching and intense research.Prof. Chandrashekar has performed ('Padmavati An Avatar' being her… Read more

Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897, Posen-Wilda (then in Germany, now Poznan, Poland) – 31 July 1985, Wetzlar, Germany) was an avant-garde photographer, political activist, and avid traveler who beautifully captured Khmer temples in the 1960s before settling for a while in Tibet in her ongoing… Read more

Titaÿna, pen-name of Elisabeth Sauvy or Sauvy-Tisseyre (22 Nov. 1897, Mas Richemont, Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France - 13 Oct 1966, San Francisco, USA) was a French aviatress, reporter at large, photographer, known as the 'Queen of Tout-Paris' in the 1920s-1930s.Early divorced from her first husband,… Read more

Geoffrey Samuel is Professorial Fellow at the School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University. His publications include Mind, Body and Culture: Anthropology and the Biological Interface (2006). Read more

Charles Louis Francis Thomson (13 Sep 1835, Algiers, 9 July 1898, Marseilles, France) was a French colonial administration high officer, Gouverneur de la Cochinchine from 18 Dec 1878, 'Plénipotentiaire de France en Annam et au Cambodge' from 8 March 1883, who wrestled out ouf of future King Norodom… Read more

Dr. Adrien Louis-Marius Pannetier (1873, Bordeaux, France -19??), a French colonial administration physician ('médecin titulaire de l'Assistance médicale') in Cambodia in the years 1900s, undertook numerous linguistic, anthropomorphological, sociological researches during his stay in French… 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

Chiara Policardi is a post-doctoral researcher at Università degli Studi di Milano - State University of Milan (Italy), Dipartimento di Studi letterari, filologici e linguistici, specializing in Indian and Buddhist philosophy and esoterism, in particular the representation and role of women in… Read more

Steven Kossak, Associate Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) during 20 years (1984-2006), is also a private collector specializing in the sculpture of 'greater India'--including Tibet, Burma, Pakistan and Afghanistan--, Indian court and Himalayan… Read more

Martin Lerner, Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) for 31 years (1972-2003) is an art historian who became entangled in the controversy around Cambodian looted art for his connections with Douglas Latchford in the years 2000s-2010s. In a report dated 18… Read more