Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray (15 Aug. 1947) is an Indian Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archaeologist focusing on maritime history and archaeology. A recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation for collaborative research and an Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds… Read more

A leader in the field of Southeast Asian archaeology, Prof. Ian Carvel Glover (24 Apr. 1934, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England - 23 Apr. 2018, Catania, Sicily) was a pioneer archaelogist and educator.He joined the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, London, and retired in 1996 as Reader in the… Read more

Mike Carson is an Associate Professor of Archaeologyresearcher at the Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam at Mangilao, USA. Read more

Peter Stafford Bellwood (1943, Leicester, England) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. His areas of specialization include the prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological,… Read more

Dr. Nguyen Kim Dung is currently Head of the Department of Ecology-Evolutionary Biology at Ho Chi Minh City University of Sciences, Vietnam. Previously, she led various research projects at the Viet Nam Institute of Archaeology in Hanoi. Read more

As an archaeological scientist and conservator Dr Anna Bennett is particularly interested in the services which can be offered to art specialists in caring for their valuable collections. An important facet of this work involves authenticities and the management of collections. She has been called… Read more

Dr. Bijan Raj Chatterji (1904, Calcutta (Kolkhata), India - 1987) was an Indian scholar pioneer in the studies of Southeast Asian cultures.After starting his higher education cursus in Punjab, he furthered his research in London and Paris, where he met leading Sanskritists and Khmerologists such as… Read more

Nicolas Weber is a researcher in Southeast Asian studies, specializing in Cham ancient and modern history. With a PhD in Asia-Pacific Studies from Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO, France), he was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies,… Read more

Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan.1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, linguist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia. Editor-in-chief of the Journal Asiatique from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in… Read more

Kitagawa Takako 北川香子 is a Japanese researcher who studied at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. In 2005, she published her research 'Kampot of the Belle Époque: From the Outlet of Cambodia to a Colonial Resort'. With a special interest in Cambodian pre-modern… Read more

Sakurai Yumio 桜井由躬雄 (31 Jan. 1945, Tokyo - 17 Dec. 2012) was an Japanese historian who specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, in particular its links with Japan. With doctorates from the University of Tokyo and (honorary) University of Vietnam, he authored several books and essays on early… Read more

Dr. James Campbell was a British naval surgeon, a naturalist and a geographer based in Bangkok in the 1850s-1870 where, as the 'physician to the British Legation', he treated the Queen of Siam and the small community of Western expatriates. According to Anna Leonowens, he attempted to save the life… Read more

Ajay Kamalakaran is an Indian independent researcher and writer who regularly contributes to the online magazine Scroll.in.Based in Mumbai, Ajay develops a special interest in Russia and ex-USSR, and has authored three books about or set in that country. He also published several essays on… Read more

Rüdiger Gaudes is a German linguist and Khmerologist who published a monumental (1330 pages) Worterbuch Khmer Deutsch (Khmer-German Dictionary) in 1985. Read more

David Olyphant King (1828, Newport, Rhode Island, USA - 1862?, American Civil War in Virginia), D.0. King, was an American businessman and traveler who gave a published account of Angkor and the Cambodian royal court at Oudong in 1859. D.O. King -- he was given the name of a close associate to his… Read more

Joseph-Georges Ganin (23 Sept. 1840, Paris - [presumed] 6 Oct. 1873, Cartagena, Spain), also know as J.G.G. D'Abin or D'Abain, was a French adventurer, a globe-trotter, a military man fighting for nationalists and republicans, a pamphletist who spent several years in Siam and Cambodia, presumably… Read more

Mgr. Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix (24 Oct. 1805, Combertault, France – 18 June 1862, Bangkok, Siam (Thailand)), vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam from 1838 to his death, was a French missionary who extensively studied Thai language and society. A close friend of King Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam -- who… Read more

Meera Abraham (1929?- 16 Oct. 2014, Kadapra, Kerala, India) was an historian of Indian sea-faring merchant trade. Married to Indian diplomat Thomas Abraham (1927-2018), himself an historian who served as High Commissioner in Sri Lanka from 1928 to 1982 and advocated for the Tamil minority rights,… Read more

J.J. (Joseph Justus Zaddik) Belinfante (11 March 1821, Amsterdam - 2 Dec. 1882, Den Haag - The Hague) was a Dutch publicist, self-taught historian and journalist who contributed to the English publication of Henri Mouhot's notes, journal and letters related to Southeast Asia and Angkor.Born in an… Read more

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926, Newark, USA - 5 April 1997, New York) was an American poet, writer and social activist, initiator of the Beat Generation movement with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and a perceptive explorer of Hinduist and Buddhist cultures, especially after his first… Read more