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

Henri Bernard (Bernard-Maître after 1948) (Chinese name Pei Huaxing 裴化行) (22 Oct 1889, Châlons-sur-Marne -- 3 Feb 1975, Gouvieux, France) was a French Jesuit priest, teacher and Orientalist, head of the Jesuit mission in Xianxian 献县 (Tientsin, Gangzhou, China) from 1924 to 1947. He was also a… Read more

Count (and Marquess) Edmé Casimir Baudier de Croizier (10 Nov. 1848, Paris - 21 June 1921, Bayonne, France) was a French traveler, diplomat, minister and writer who, thanks to his friendship with Louis Delaporte, attempted to establish the first detailed catalog of the artworks brought from… Read more

A Professor at the South and Southeast Asia Studies Departmen, University of California at Berkeley (USA), a writer and translator, Penelope 'Penny' Edwards specializes in history of Literature, Buddhist studies, Gender studies, and the modern history of Burma (Myanmar) and Cambodia, in particular… Read more

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

Tegan Hall is a researcher specializing in Biogeography. Geography, Palaeoecology and Archaeology, working with the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2019, she published in PNAS 'Geoarchaeological evidence from Angkor, Cambodia, reveals a gradual decline rather than a… Read more

Pelle Wijker is a PhD candidate in archaeology at Sorbonne Paris and CNRS, specializing in the comparative study of Khmer and Maya civilizations ('Urbanisme Khmer et Maya : analyse comparative des modèles de peuplement à l'aide d'ensemble de données Lidar'). Read more

Dr. Prasanna Kumar (P.K.) Acharya (1890, Calcutta, India -- ) was an Indian scholar, translator, Sanskritist and historian of architecture who published the first complete edition and translation into English of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra (मानसार शिल्पशस्त्र), or Manasara, the ancient Indian… Read more

One of India’s greatest translators and Sanskritists, Manmatha Nath Dutt (Shastri) (1855, Calcutta, India -1912, Baranagar, India) translated from Sanskrit to English important works such as Valmiki Ramayana (sequentially from 1892 to 1894), Markandeya Purana (1896), Bhagavata Purana (1896), Vishnu… Read more

Albert Savine (20 Apr 1859, Aigues-Mortes, France -- 6 June 1927, Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French writer, journalist, translator, publisher and penpusher who often went after lucrative yet reprehensible assignments -- a series of blatantly antisemitic pamphlets, for instance -- but died in… Read more

Dr. EA Darith is a Cambodian researcher, professor of Khmer history and Director of the Department of Conservation and Archaeology.at the National Authority for Preah Vihear since June 2021. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 1995, his… Read more