Prof. Kalyan Kumar Sarkar (1 Feb 1932, Krishnagar, West Bengal, India - 15 March 2014, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was a historian of Ancient India and Professor Emeritus, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Born and educated in India, Dr. Sarkar went to Paris in 1958 to complete his Ph.D. at… Read more

Dr. Philippe Hahn, known as 'Docteur Hahn' (19 Aug 1850, Strasbourg-Neuhof - 23 March 1913, Paris, France) was a French physician and administrator, the personal physician of Kings Norodom and Sisowath, and a keen observer of the Cambodian scene from 1878 to 1907.Arriving in Cambodia on 1 January… Read more

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Ulrich Theobald is a German researcher on Chinese history specializing in the economic, military, and administrative history of late imperial China, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany since 2016.One of his current projects investigates the impact of… Read more

Ian Harris is reader in Buddhist studies at University College of St. Martin, Lancaster, and associate fellow, Becket Institute, St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Read more

Solang (b. Tuk Meas, Cambodia) and Beling (b. Hunan, China) Uk are the authors of the first translation of Zhou Daguan's account on Angkor in the 13th century sourced from Chinese and Khmer versions of this essential testimony about the Angkorian power at its peak, before the Siamese and Cham… Read more

Born in 1957 in Phnom Penh, photographer Dunnara Meas was 18 when the Khmer Rouge coup d'Etat forced him into exile, in France.Renowned still photographer for feature films and theater performances, he came back to Cambodia in order to cover the shooting of Rithy Panh's Les gens de la rizière (Rice… Read more

Sakada Sakhoeun (1986, Phnom Penh) is a senior archeologist with ADFKulen. Involved in several archaeological projects for Sydney University (Australia) and Sophia University (Japan), Sakhoeun joined the Archeological and Development Foundation/Phnom Kulen in 2009, spending his time between the ADF… Read more

Sent to South East Asia as an enlisted private in the Foreign Legion ('Légion Étrangere'), Jean Narcisse Commaille (24 June 1868, Marseilles - 30 Apr. 1916, Siem Reap) became the First Conservateur (Curator) of Angkor Wat in July 1908 after joining the EFEO as a mere civil servant eight years… Read more

A leading expert in Thai, Burmese and Khmer Arts history, Hiram W. Woodward Jr., "Woody", (b. Baltimore, Md., USA) fostered one of the main Asian art collections worldwide when he was Curator of The Walters Arts Museum, 1986-2003. After studying in the US (Harvard College), London and Bangkok -- he… Read more

Senior lecturer in musicology at the Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University in Växjö (Sweden), Martin Knust studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Greifswald, Berlin and Dresden. Since 2007, he has held appointments and lectureships at the E.-M.-Arndt-University in Greifswald,… Read more

Journalist, novelist and poet Jeanne Leuba (8 Nov. 1882, Paris – 24 July 1979, Pettenbach, Austria) depicted in her novels the status of local and expatriate women in colonial Indochina, while getting involved into archaeological and historic research after marrrying EFEO director Henri Parmentier… Read more

A graduate student at EHESS Paris and University of Strasbourg, a PhD candidate, Chloé Chollet is a member of the DHARMA Project and a researcher in Khmer epigraphy with the CIK (Corpus des Inscriptions Khmeres). Read more

A doctor in musicology and ethnomusicology, Jarernchai Chonpairot teaches at the College of Music, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. In 2019, Dr. Jarernchai Chonpairot gave the opening speech to the 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Among many… Read more

教授 (Jiaoshou, Professor) 段立生 Duan Lisheng (1944, Dali, Yunnan Province 大理市 云南), a descendant of the Duan Royal Family of Dali, is distinguished scholar in history of art, Siamese and Thai cultures, Southeast Asia and world architecture. Graduated from Beijing University in 1967 after studying… Read more

Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (17 Oct. 1900, Belsize Grove, England -1981) was a British historian and archaelogist who served as an adivser to Kings Rama VI and Rama VII of Siam from 1924 to 1928, devoting his his doctoral thesis to the Siamese State Ceremonies (published in 1931).… Read more

Fray (Friar) Marcelo de Ribadeinera (or Ribadeynera) (1560 or 1562, Palencia, Spain - 1606, Salamanca) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary part of the mission to the Philippines that left Sevilla on 9 January 1593 to reach Manila in May 1594 under the supervision of Padre Ortiz Cabezas. He was sent… Read more

Dr. Bijan Raj Chatterji (1904, Calcutta (Kolkhata), India - 1987) was an Indian scholar pioneer in the studies of Southeast Asian cultures. After starting his higher education cursus in Punjab, he furthered his research in London and Paris, where he met leading Sanskritists and Khmerologists such… Read more

Jacques Deprat (1880, Fontenay aux Roses, France -7 March 1935, Ansó, Spain, in a mountaineering accident) was a biologist and paleontologist working in Indochina (Hanoi) in the 1910s, who was apparently wrongly accused of fraud and left Southeast Asia in 1919 after a few promising years.Hired for… Read more

Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808, Pontarlet, France – 12 October 1892, Paris) was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he… Read more