Trương Vĩnh Ký (張永記), also known as Pétrus Ky or Jean-Baptiste Pétrus (6 Dec 1837, Vĩnh Long Province -1 Sep 1898, Saigon, now in Vietnam) was a Vietnamese linguist, teacher and translator whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe.After his father's death… Read more

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 Mar 1830, Sainte Foy la Grande, France – 4 July 1905, Torhout, Belgium) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, a free-thinker advocating for 'unions libres' and nudism, whose monumental work in 19 volumes, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et… Read more

Chutima Janthed is a researcher at the Royal Thai Fine Arts Department, Phimai. Thailand. Read more

Sarah Talbot is a researcher at the Anthropology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Read more

Auguste-Léopold dit André Silice(1880, Nancy - 1951, Phnom Penh) was a French visual artist and the Director of Phnom Penh Ecole des Arts from 1922 to 1944. The School had been founded by George Groslier, who directed it from 1918 to 1922. In charge of the Sculpted Marble Workshop in Pursat since… Read more

George T. Bliss (1927, Sarasota, Florida, USA - 8 Aug 2009, Sarasota) was a sculptor and photographer who spent many years in Africa and Southeast Asia as a USAID worker. His photographs illustrated George Coedès' seminal book, Angkor: An Introduction (1963). Read more

Emily Delafield Floyd Gardiner (1905, Mastic Estate, New York, USA -1994) was an American socialite, a literary editor and translator.Married to US Economic Counselor and State Department official Arthur Zimmerman Gardiner (1901-1975) -- who resigned in protest against the US war in Vietnam in 1967… Read more

Siyonn Sophearith is a lecturer of Cambodian History and Art History at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, and the Director General of the Department of Statistics and Planning at the Intangible Culture Heritage Committee for Cambodia, UNESCO. He is also the Director of Khmer… Read more

Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (b. 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford, where he was Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics until his retirement in 2015.A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian religions, he specializes in Shaivism and esoteric Śaiva… Read more

Kirit Mankodi (b. 1940) is an Indologist and professor of Archaeology specializing in tracing looted or illegaly purchased looted Indian artworks. After receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Poona University, he worked at the American… Read more

Ly Vanna is a Cambodian archaeologist and the Director of the Department of Conservation of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology at Apsara Authority since 2010. With a PhD in Area Studies from the University of Sophia, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, he was a research fellow at the University of Kanazawa,… Read more

NGUYỄN Thị Tú Anh (Tu-Anh Thi Nguyen) is a PhD candidate in History of Art, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. She graduated from SOAS, University of London in 2017-19 with a Diploma and Master of Art degree in History of Art and… Read more

Sunil Gupta is an Indian archaeologist and researcher, and the Director of the Allahabad Museum, Allahabad, India. His PhD thesis in 1998 (Deccan College Postgraduate Institute, University of Pune, India) was titled: ‘Roman Egypt to Peninsular India: Archaeological Patterns of Trade, 1st century BC… 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

A Scottish surgeon, colonial administrator, diplomat, and author who served as the second and last Resident of Singapore, Dr John Crawfurd (13 Aug 1783, Islay, Scotland – 11 May 1868, London, UK) visited Siam and Cochinchina in 1821-1822, during a diplomatic mission commandited by the… Read more

Jean Moura (3 Apr 1827, Moissac, France - 17 May 1885) was a French Navy officer, civil administrator, Khmerologist and explorer who authored one of the first exhaustive descriptions of Cambodia and Angkor, Le Royaume du Cambodge (1883).While lieutenant de vaisseau (Lt.) Moura was thrice the… Read more

Bindu S. Shankar (13 July 1965, Madras, India) is a Bharata Natyam dancer and researcher from Chennai with a Ph.D in Art History from the Ohio State University, USA. She pursued her dissertation research on dance imagery in South Indian temples and studied the relationship between the temple… Read more

Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam (4 Feb. 1943, Madras (Chennai)) is a respected dancer, research scholar, choreographer, singer, composer, teacher and author who has notorious contributed to the knowledge and practice of Indian classical dance. Born into a family of Tamil renowned artists -- her father, K.… Read more

Manomohan (or Manmohan) Ghosh is an Indian sanskritist, historian and literary translator who published the first complete English translation of the ancient Treatise on Performing Arts, the Natyashastra. He is the author of numerous history books and translations, including Nandikeshwar's… Read more

Born on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, Mohanapriyan Thavarajah is a young male Bharatanatyam artist and choreographer based in Singapore, as a principal dancer, resident choreographer and dance faculty member with Apsaras Arts Dance Company and Academy. Studying various Southeast Asian dance… Read more