Edmond Jean Guy Henry-Biabaud, pen name Henry-Biabaud (7Jan 1913, Romorantin, France - 21 June 2006) was a French automobile engineer who visited Indochina in 1937 and 1938 due to 'the contengencies of his career', according to a short introduction to one of the many republications of his Deux ans… Read more

Amir Dan Aczel (6 Nov 1950, Haifa, Israel- 26 Nov 2015, Nimes, France) was an Israeli-born American mathermatician, lecturer in the history of mathematics and science, and author who researched the origins of "0", founding a quite convincing answer in Cambodian history.He has recounted how, while… Read more

Jean Dorsenne or 'Dorsennus' [pen-name of Étienne Troufleau] (1892, Constantine, Algeria - 6 March 1944, Buchenwald concentration camp) was a French reporter and novelist who stayed in Tahiti from 1922 to 1926, traveled around Indochina during the 1930s, published many essays, biographies, history… Read more

Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (21 Nov. 1865, Lorient - 30 Oct. 1952, Sceaux, France, was a French archaeologist, philologist, art and religion historian specialized in Buddhist iconography, a member of the French Société Asiatique and the Commission archéologique de l'Indochine, and the Director… Read more

Milton Edgeworth Osborne (b. 17 Apr. 1936, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian historian, author, and consultant specializing in Southeast Asia, whose association with the region began in 1959 with an Australian diplomatic posting to Phnom Penh. In 1980 and 1981 Osborne advised the United Nations… Read more

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