Raymond Recouly (1876, Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens- 12 Sept 1950, Montpellier, France) was a newspaper and magazine writer, war reporter and historian who became French Marshal Joffre's biographer during World War I, and traveled extensively across Russia, North Africa, Southeast Asia and China. After… Read more

Virginia Mc Lean Thompson, also Virginia Adloff or Virginia Thompson Adloff (18 Oct 1903, Newtonville, MA - 9 Jan 1990, San Diego, CA, USA) was an American travel writer, international relations analyst, political scientist, translator and author who covered extensively Southeast Asia, publishing… Read more

Emma Cadwalader Bunker (19 June 1930, Haverford, Pennsylvania - 21 Feb. 2021, Denver, Colorado, USA) was an American scholar, archeologist, professor and author specializing in Eurasia, China and Cambodia and Asian art, whose reputation was posthumously ruined for her association with British art… Read more

Thomas Mark Shelby (b. 2 Oct. 1970, Fairfield, Alabama, USA) is a cultural resources specialist with a doctorate from the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.Specializing in the environmental and architectural issues in cultural sites preservation, he has studied the… Read more

Mick Shippen is a British-born travel photographer and writer who documents cultural topics across Southeast Asia. In 2005, while still a teacher and a potter in his spare time, he published The Traditional Ceramics of Southeast Asia. In 2016, with writer Tessa Bunney, he started to document… Read more

Marijke J. Klokke is a Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, The Netherlands. She specializes in Indonesian bronzes and early material culture exchanges across Southeast Asia. Read more

Maud Girard-Geslan is a French art historian who worked with Musée Guimet (Paris) and published several books and essays, including Of Earth and Fire: The T. T. Tsui Collection of Chinese Art in the National Gallery of Australia. Read more

Béla T. Kalman (29 July 1921, Budapest, Hungary -- 26 June 2011, Boston, USA) was a renowned photographer and a mentor to many younger photographers who contributed to several illustrated books, including Indian Country: America’s Sacred Land (with texts by Tony Hillerman). With an inclination to… Read more

Joan Lebold Cohen (b. 19 Aug 1932, Highland Park, Illinois, USA) is an American freelance photographer, curator, and researcher in Asian art history. A regular visitor to Asia since 1961, Cohen lived in Japan, Hong Kong, and China, where she was a witness to the post-Cultural Revolution period from… Read more

Maurice Raoul Gabriel Menardeau (6 Feb 1897, Limoges, France - 11 April 1977, Curepipe, Mauritius) was a French Navy officer and a post-impressionist painter who pictured many maritime and river scenes across French colonies, including 'Indochina'. After starting his studies at Paris Ecole des… Read more

Ariane de Saxcé is an archaeologist and a Research Associate for South and Southeast Asia with Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI, Bonn, Germany) and University of Paris III Sorbonne.Her specialization area is the archaeology of South Asia and the Indian Ocean, with an emphasis on maritime… Read more

Lewis Rowell (b. 1933) is an American professor of Music and Musicology, a fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the author of several books and articles on time and rhythm, the music of India, and the philosophy of music. Prof. Rowell was a faculty… Read more

Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan Leena is an archaeologist, a professor and director at the Center for Archaeological Studies, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, specializing in the field of art history, culture and archaeology of South and Southeast Asia. With a MA in Islamic Art & Archaeology… Read more

Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri (29 July 1890, Tiruchirappalli, British India – 20 May 1978, Tiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, India) was a Sanskrit and Tamil language scholar, and a specialist in Tamil literature who was the first to translate Tolkāppiyam into English. Studying with Sanskritists, grammarians… Read more

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé (1890, Paris - 1970, Tangier) was a French artist who extensively painted Indochina, Vietnamese and Cambodian scenes and views of Angkor, with a predilection for oil on paper medium.After studying at Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts and meeting her first husband Pierre… Read more

Martine de la Ferrière née Péronne (b. 1926, Ile aux Moines, France) is a French writer who published several children's books, including the Zor Saga, a family autobiography (On n'a pas peur du noir, 2003) and two monographies about her grandfather, the visual artist Jordic (Jordic: un artiste à… Read more

Brice Vincent is a member of Ecole Française d Extreme Orient (EFEO), specializing in archaeometallurgy.After studying Khmer language at INALCO (2004) and obtaining one MA in History ("Le commerce maritime du monde gréco-romain avec l’Inde du Sud et le Sri Lanka (IIIe s. avant – Ve s. après J.-C.)"… Read more

Aurélie Fischer (b. 1984, Mons, Belgium) is a freelance photographer based in Cambodia since 2020. After hearing the "call of the East" in the 2010s, she visited Angkor for the first time in 2014, spent some time as a volunteer in the experimental city of Auroville, India, and photographed the huge… Read more

HE Kong Som Ol គង់ សំអុល (b. 1 Nov 1936) is a Cambodian dignitary who has served in several capacities, in particular as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Royal Palace (since 1998).He was Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from 1986 to 1989, and was elected to represent Kampong… 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