Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (25 June 1956, Manhattan, NYC, USA - 8 June 2018, Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France) was an acclaimed food and travel writer, food explorer, ex-prep cook and ex-chef, who portrayed the planet, its people and their culinary habits (or quirks) while relentlessly traveling… Read more

Suthep Kritsanavarin is a Thailand leading photojournalist covering environmental, social and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades. His award-winning work has been published internationally in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic Thailand,… Read more

許雲樵 Hsu Yun Tsiao (also Xu Yunqiao, 1905, Jiangsu Province, China – 17 Nov 1981, Singapore) was a scholar of Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian history who migrated to Singapore in 1930, specializing in Malaysian studies. From 1933 to 1938, he taught in Thailand, where he met his wife (née Liu).… Read more

Tansen Sen is the Director of the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai, and a Global Network Professor with NYU (New York University, USA), specializing in Asian history and religions, India-China interactions, Indian Ocean connections, and Buddhism. He is the author of Buddhism, Diplomacy, and… Read more

Willem Wolters is professor emeritus of economic anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. With a PhD with the University of Amsterdam, he has done anthropological fieldwork in the Philippines and Indonesia. His publications include: Politics, patronage and class conflict in… Read more

Peter Boomgaard (? - 10 Jan. 2022) was a senior researcher at the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Leiden, the Netherlands, and professor of economic and environmental history of Southeast Asia at the University of Amsterdam. He directed the KITVL (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-,… Read more

Prof. Kishor K. Basa is the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha. He was the Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India in 2019-20. He is also the Chairman of Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the… Read more

Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya is an Australian historian, Professor in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i and former Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. In 2005-06 she was President of the American Association of Asian Studies. Educated at the University of Sydney… Read more

Neha Jain is a freelance science writer based in Hong Kong committed to sharing science and sustainability stories.Before turning to writing, she worked in a cancer research lab and facilitated science learning among elementary school children through fun, hands-on experiments. Her science blog… Read more

Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural and intellectual historian of early South Asia, and a Sanskritist. An Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, she has also been the Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale… Read more

Mamta Dwivedi is a post-doctoral researcher at Freiburg University, specialized in Early Historic South Asia, Numismatics and Religion.Her PhD dissertation in 2011 was 'Yaudheya Coins: Exploring Numismatics as a Source of History (c. 300 B.C. to c. A.D 300.)' (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New… Read more

Ezaka Rakotondramana is a French music composer and teacher of Malagasyi origin who teaches piano and composition to young students in the Montpellier area (South of France).Exploring various forms of music and theater, she is also a singer and a performer with a the Compagnie Arcturus, co-founded… Read more

Philippe Larsen is a French-Swiss writer who has published two books and various texts in European cultural magazines. Read more

Dr. Ku Boon Dar is a Malaysian historian specializing in the history of the Malay world, China, Southeast Asia, nationalisms and border issues in the region. Since 2020, he is part of the Project ‘Scanning the Landscape of Southeast Asian Studies in Southeast Asia’(SEASREP Foundation & Luce… Read more

POH Yi Jia Gabriela is an archaeologist and ceramic analyst with the Australian National University (ANU). Growing up in Singapore, she has studied in Beijing, Hong Kong and Australia, "learning about the lives of ancient nomads, royalty, urban dwellers and islanders," according to her… Read more

Dr. Hung Hsiao-chun 洪曉純 is a Senior Research Fellow in archaeology and national history, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University (ANU). She has extensively published (in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages) on prehistoric and historic agricultural and… Read more

Roger Marsh Blench (b. 1 Jan. 1953, London) is a British linguist, ethnomusicologist and development anthropologist, currently with the McDonal Institute for Archaelogical Research, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge, UK. An expert in African linguistics (Niger–Congo, Nilo-Saharan and… Read more

Pamela Gutman (1944- 31 March 2015) was an Australian researcher, a pioneering art historian specialized in Burmese art and a consultant on national policy on immigration and multiculturalism.In 1972, she got permission to undertake research in Burma (now Myanmar) for her PhD thesis “Ancient… Read more

Tyson Royal Roberts (b. 1940, USA) is an American ichthyologist and environmentalist. He has been described as "the world's foremost authority on Regalecus." Roberts attended Stanford University (USA), where he earned his B.A. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1968. He won a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship in the… Read more

Sophie de Mullenheim (b. 1974) is a prolific author of children's books, working with French and American publishers. Among the 200-plus books she authored are The Phantom of the Colosseum; The Big Book of Christians Around the World; The Life of Jesus According to St. Luke; The Catholic Faith… Read more