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

Monica Smith is an archaeologist with the Faculty of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, whose principal research interests are the human interaction with material culture, urbanism as a long-term human phenomenon, and the development of social complexity.Her current… Read more

Seng Sonetra was Acting Dean and Lecturer of the Department of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh before undertaking the MA programme in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London in 2018-19. She has conducted several archaeological excavations of prehistoric… Read more

Dr. Heng Sophady is a Cambodian archaeologist who has been involved in the excavations of prehistoric sites in the Memot region since 2007, and a Rector of the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh.Deputy director general for Cultural Heritage at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of… Read more

Vin Laychour វិន ឡៃជួ is an archaeologist member of the Faculty of Archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, specializing in prehistory and Vietnamese history. Read more

Specializing in early Metal Age in Southeast Asia and Traditional crafts and early agriculture, Dr. Andreas Reinecke studied Prehistory and Vietnamese language at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, and since 1993 heads the Division for Southeast Asian archaeology at the Commission for Archaeology… Read more

Lu Shiyong 陆诗咏 is an artist and researcher based in New York City, NY, USA.After studying graphic design in Shanghai, China, she graduated from Ohio State University, USA, in 2019. She is currently a PhD candidate in Art History. Read more

Tsuda Kojiro 津田浩二郎 is a researcher at the Department of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Japan, who worked on several archaelogical sites in Cambodia. Read more

Uchida Etsuo 内田 悦生 is a geologist and Professor at the College of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, who studies the geology and archaeology of Cambodia, South Korea and other parts of Asia.His latest publication is "Non-destructive in-situ classification of sandstones used… Read more

A graduate from the School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, Sato Katsura 佐藤 桂 is a researcher in the fields of architectural history, history of Oriental architecture, historical archaeology and heritage conservation. She has often contributed to the Journal of Architecture… Read more

Dr. Shimoda Ichita 下田 一太 is an architectural historian who has been extensively working on Angkorean sites.With a Ph.D. in Architectural History of Southeast Asia at Waseda University, Tokyo, Dr. Shimoda is currently Associate Professor at the World Heritage Program in the University of Tsukuba,… Read more

Col. Jacob T. Child (19 Jan 1832, Philadelphia - 19 Oct 1905, Richmond, Missouri, USA) was an American diplomat and publicist.United States Minister Resident in Bangkok from 1884 to 1888, he later portrayed Siam and the Siamese court in his book The Pearl of Asia. He also served as US… Read more

Charles Meyer (12 March 1923-2004) was a French historian, Orientalist, teacher and unofficial diplomat who lived in Cambodia from 1946 to 1970 (out of "25 years in Indochina", according to his laconic biography), was at the time the PR adviser and close counselor to HM the King Norodom Sihanouk… Read more

William Young Willetts (28 Nov. 1918, Purton Stoke, UK-30 Jan.1995, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was a British researcher in the field of South-East Asian and Chinese art studies, who served as curator of the National University of Singapore art museum from 1963 to 1972. A specialist in ceramics, he… Read more

Herbert Warington Smyth, "Warington" (4 June 1867 – 19 Dec. 1943, Redruth, UK) was a British traveler, writer, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam in the 1890s and later held several posts in the Union of South Africa. Warington went to Siam in 1890 as an unpaid… Read more