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

Andrée Viollis (Andrée Jacquet or Andrée Théry, "Viollis" being a penname) (9 Dec 1870, Mées, France – 9 Aug 1950, Paris) was a prominent French journalist and writer, anti-fascist and feminist activist who fought against colonialism in Indochina in the 1930s.It is from her second husband, Henri… Read more

Yvonne Schultz (18 June 1889, Paris - 25 March 1977, Nice) was a French writer and woman traveler who set several of her novels in Vietnam and, Cambodia, including Les Fiancés d'Angkor (Louis Bellenand et fils, coll. "Jeunes femmes et jeunes filles", 1928 and 1932) under the pen-name Dyvonne (she… Read more

Jules Roy (30 Jan. 1844, Trépillots, France - 5 March 1914) was a French historian, a professor at Ecole des Chartes and Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), and a close friend of Charles Mouhot, Henri Mouhot's brother. He published numerous historic essays, including L'An Mille (1878), Du role… Read more

Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935) was an American painter, art collector, and scholar of art history who was a tenant of the "pure design" theory. A professor of art at Harvard University and a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he gathered a huge private collection of Asian Art. Prof. Marie… Read more

Jan Fontein (22 May 1927, Naarden, Netherlands – 19 May 2017, Newton Upper Falls, MD, USA) was a Dutch art historian, museum curator and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1975 to 1987. Specialized in Indonesian archaeology and Easterrn Arts, Fontein started his career at the… Read more

Abby Seiff is an editor and independent journalist with nearly a decade of international experience, primarily in Southeast Asia. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Time, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Pacific Standard, and more publications. She served as an editor for several years at The… Read more

Created in Paris in 1946 at the initiative of Chauncey J. Hamlin (US), who became the first President of the organisation, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted its Code of Ethics in 1986. The organization lists more than 15,000 members worlwide. From 1996 on, ICOM reinforced its… Read more