After obtaining a PhD in archaeology at Paris IV Sorbonne on the Buddhist āśrama of Prasat Ong Mong, Chea Socheat became co-director of the excavation campaigns of the Yaśodharāśrama research programme. He supervises the post-excavation work, manages all cartographic and topographic data and… Read more

Ian Masters is an award-winning screenwriter who has worked across Africa and Asia for over twenty years. As a freelance scriptwriter and creative consultant for BBC Media Action he has developed and written TV and radio dramas from Bangladesh to Indonesia, Cambodia to South Sudan. His first… Read more

Paul Fuchs (1936-19 Dec 2023, Pezenas, France) was a French agricultural engineer and a journalist who served as HM King Norodom Sihanouk's press attaché in the 1960s, and contributed to Agence Khmere de Presse (AKP).He researchedd and covered numerous royal ceremonies and popular festivals in… Read more

Robert Philpotts (b. 1947) is a British author and illustrator who visited Cambodia in the early 1990s.Publications: Building the Lancaster Canal, London, Blackwater Press, 1979, repub. 1998: ISBN 13: 9780946623006 The Tower of London to Tobacco Dock: Through St Katharine's Dock and Old Wapping,… Read more

Dr. Bernard Menaut (6 May 1879, Parentis-en-Born, France -1943, Rion-des-Landes, France) was a French physician who worked in Cambodia as Chief of Health Service from 1910 to 1939, trained numerous local doctors and studied Cambodian traditional medecine, as well as serving as personal physician to… Read more

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Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France -  28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Étienne François Aymonier (26 Feb 1844, Le Chatelard, France – 21 Jan 1929, Paris), French naval officer, colonial administrator, linguist and explorer, was the first scientist to extensively survey the ruins and inscriptions of the Khmer empire in today's Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern… Read more

Patmawan Buranamat (Bangkok, 1979) studied English and English Literature, graduating in South East Asian studies at Chulalongkorn University. In 2005, she attended the conference on "Contemporary Research in Pre-Angkorian Cambodia" held at the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap. She is… Read more

Associate Researcher with CNRS (France), Ludivine Provost-Roche specializes in historical research on the end of the Angkorian period. Her PhD dissertation in 2010 is titled 'Les derniers siècles de l'époque angkorienne au Cambodge (env. 1220-env. 1500)' (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle).An art… Read more

The Phnom Penh Post is a daily English-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded in 1992 by publisher Michael Hayes and Kathleen O'Keefe, it is Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper, and the only international-award-winning press outlet in the Kingdom. Read more

A former banker, the Director of the Sarasvati Research Center, and Chair of the Taksha center and Institute, Dr. Srinivasan Kalyanaraman has been researching for years the mighty Vedic River Sarasvati which, in its time, gave rise to an entire civilization and was lost without a trace. Studying… Read more

Henri Marchal (24 June 1876, Paris - 12 Apr. 1970, Siem Reap), director of the Archaeology Department at the École française d'Extrême-Orient, served as Chief Conservator of Angkor from 1916 -- after Jean Commaille was killed by looters -- to 1936, and then again after Second World War II, from… Read more

Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Jinah Kim received her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University (1998), and her M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in History of Art from University of California,… Read more

Xia Nai (夏鼐, 1910, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China – 19 June 1985) was an eminent Chinese archaeologist, celebrated on the international academic scene as a member of the British Academy (1974), the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities (1983), the U.S. Academy of Sciences… Read more

A graduate from the School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, Sato Katsura 佐藤 桂 is a researcher in the fields of architectural history, history of Oriental architecture, historical archaeology and heritage conservation. She has often contributed to the Journal of Architecture… Read more

CAST:ING (Copper Alloy Sculpture Techniques and history: an International iNterdisciplinary Group) is a project run since 2015 by an international team of conservators, scientists, curators, art historians, historians, archaeologists, archaeometallurgists, and craftspeople, who are studying bronze… Read more

Raymond Cauchetier (10 Jan. 1920, Paris - 22 Feb. 2021, Paris) was a self-taught photographer whose work, intimately vinculated to Angkor and Asia, is recognized as one of the major testimonies on culture and arts in the 20th century. As a stillphotographer, he also make live for ever actors and… Read more

Prof. Fujioka Michio 藤岡通夫 (31 Jul. 1908, Tokyo - 19 Nov. 1988, Tokyo) was an eminent Japanese architect and art historian who studied the architecture of the Khmer temples. Author of a reference book on Japanese Castles, as well as essays on Japanese Residences and Gardens (恒成一訓写真), Castles and… Read more

A Professor at USC College of Arts and Sciences (California, USA), Norindr Panivong researches comparative literature, postcolonial theory, contemporary French studies, and French and Southeast Asian cinema. His published works include several essays on Southeast Asian representations in European… Read more