Luc Ionesco (1934, Paris - 1977, Paris) was a professional photographer who worked with EFEO/Siem Reap from 1962 to 1966, documenting the major Khmer monuments and documenting the ongoing restoration works. He also contributed to the photographic documentation of the National Museum of Cambodia in… Read more

Diana L. Eck (b. 1945, Tacoma, Washington, USA) is a scholar of religious studies, a professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard Universty since 1976- where she co-founded and heads the Pluralism Project -, and with partner Dorothy Evans the first same-sex couple having been… Read more

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François-Henri Dufour (19 Dec. 1870, Nancy, France - ?) was an architect and artist active in French Indochina as Inspector of Civil Buildings in Cambodia since 6 Oct. 1900, when he was directed to join the first ever EFEO archaeological mission (1901-2), conjointly with the Commission… Read more

John Gilman D'Arcy Paul [or J.G. D'Arcy Paul or J.Gilman D'Arcy Paul or J.G.D. Paul or John Paul] (31 Jan. 1887, Baltimore, Maryland - 12 Jan. 1972, Gilford, MD, USA) was an American diplomat, patron of the arts, globetrotter and landowner in Maryland, USA, who authored the first English… Read more

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Anna A. Ślączka, Ph.D. (2006), Leiden University, is Curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on Hindu art and ritual, including Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology (Brill, 2007).After studying Sanskrit… Read more

Lt-Colonel Fernand Abraham Bernard (24 July 1866, Nîmes, France - 1st Aug. 1961, France) was a French colonial army officer from 1891 until his retirement on 5 Aug. 1908, an entrepreneur and businessman in Indochina and Java who helped to fund the French Resistance network Combat, and the leading… Read more

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Iwai Hirosato 岩井大慧 [also Iwai Daisuke 岩井大慧] (1891, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan -1971) was an administrator of the Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) from its foundation by Iwasaki Hisaya (1865-1955) in November 1924, and a researcher in Buddhist History specializing in the Yuan and Sung dynasties in China… Read more

Jean Laurent Delvert (19 May 1921, Vincennes, France - 24 June 2005, Paris) was a French geographer who spent ten years in Cambodia as part of his academic career and wrote extensively about Southeast Asia and tropical geography.Delvert was appointed assistant professor in geography in 1946, spent… Read more

Mathieu Guérin is a researcher and a professor of history at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris, specializing in Southeast Asian agrarian societies and ethnic minorities, the social and environmental history of Southeast Asia and particularly Cambodia in the… Read more

Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (b. 5 Nov 1939) is a French paleontologist specializing in birds of the Eocene and the Oligocene, a former Research Director at CNRS (1985-2005) and the discoverer with husband Roland Mourer of the Cambodian prehistoric cave site of Laang Spean ភ្នំទាក់ទ្រាំង ល្អាងស្ពាន in… Read more

LinDa Saphan (b. 1975, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian artist, urban anthropologist and researcher who grew up in Canada and graduated in France, a co-organizer of the first Visual Arts Open festival celebrating Cambodian artists in 2005, and the lead researcher on John Pirozzi's celebrated movie, Don't… Read more

Sheldon Pollock (b. 1948, USA) is an American scholar researcher, translator specializing in Sanskrit philology, Indian intellectual and literary history, comparative intellectual history, who wrote about the language and meaning of ancient inscriptions in India and Southeast Asia.Educated at… Read more

George Wooley Spencer (1939, Maryland, USA - 19 Jan 2021, DeKalb, Illinois, USA) was an American historian who was extensively written on Tamil culture and Chola Empire history since he presented his PhD thesis at University of California, Berkeley, “Royal Leadership and Imperial Conquest in… Read more

Xu Zhaolin 許肇琳 [simplified 许肇琳] (b. 1936, Udong, Cambodia) is a Cambodian historian who settled in China at an early age, a professor at 中山大学东南亚研究所 [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Sun-Yatsen University] who been writing extensively on China-Cambodia relations since the earliest times,… Read more

Dr. Bernard Menaut (6 May 1879, Parentis-en-Born, France -1943, Rion-des-Landes, France) was a French physician who worked in Cambodia as Chief of Health Service from 1910 to 1939, trained numerous local doctors and studied Cambodian traditional medecine, as well as serving as personal physician to… Read more

Andrew Spooner (1840, Paris - 29 July 1884, Cascade du Bois de Boulogne, Paris) was a French-American merchant established in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh Ville] in 1861, a reporter with French magazine L'Illustration who covered the French army's assault on Bien-Hoa on 9 Dec. 1861, and an early Western… Read more

Kallidaikurichi Aiyah (K. A.) Nilakanta Sastri  (12 Aug. 1892, Kallidaikurichi, Tinnevely [now Tirunelveli] District, Madras Presidency, British India– 15 June 1975, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India) was an Indian historian specializing in South India, regarded as the most distinguished and… Read more