Himansu Bhusan (H.B.) Sarkar was an Indian historian specializing in South India, Southeast Asian and Indonesian studies, a disciple of Rabindranath Tagore and R.C. Majumdar, an epigraphist and history researcher with Dacca University - modern times Dhaka University ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, Bangladesh,… Read more

Nasir Abdoul-Carime is a France-based historian specializing in Cambodian and Southeast Asian history. In 1997, Abdoul-Carime launched the Association d'échanges et de formation pour les études khmères (AEFEK) on the occasion of a meeting at UNESCO Paris with two generations of Khmerologists. Seven… Read more

Thongchai Winichakul ธงชัย วินิจจะกูล (b. 1st Oct. 1957, Bangkok), is a Thai historian and researcher in Southeast Asian studies, Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA), and Emeritus Research Fellow with the Institute of Developing Economies… Read more

Soung Sokro ​សួង សុខរ៉ូ ​is a Cambodian teacher in archaeology and anthropology, a civil servant at the Center for Cultural Research and Innovation, and the executive director of the Khmer cultural promotion organization Yosothor.He studied archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom… Read more

Jeannine Auboyer (6 Aug 1912, Paris - 6 Feb 1990, Sèvres (92), France) was a French Indologist and art historian specializing in the classical arts of South and Southeast Asia. From 1965 to 1980 she was the chief-curator of the Musée Guimet in Paris.A daughter of commissaire-priseur [auctioneer]… Read more

Soth Polin [also Suddh Pulin] សុទ្ធ ប៉ូលីន( b. 1943, Chroy Thmar village, Kompong Cham, Cambodia) is a Cambodian writer who published to great acclaim his first novel, A Meaningless Life, in 1965, during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era, a renowned journalist who worked with Khmer Ekareach (The… Read more

Sukanta Chaudhuri (b. 1950, Calcutta (Kolkata), India) is Professor Emeritus at ​the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A famed literary translator and editorial theorist, he was the project director of Bichitra [বিচিত্রা: বৈদ্যুতিন রবীন্দ্র-রচনাসম্ভার Bichitra: Online… Read more

Phuy Meychean is a Cambodian researcher in Khmer art history focusing on representations of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses, and an intern for the SOAS program Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art, London. With a BA in Archaeology from the Royal University of… Read more

Morris Rossabi (b. 5 Dec. 1941, Alexandria, Egypt) is an American historian specializing in Central Asia, Mongol and Chinese History, a professor at City University of New York and an associate professor at Columbia University., New York City, USA.His Yemenite Jewish family moved to Egypt in the… Read more

Dr Sally Frances Low is an Australian researcher in law history and a specialist in international development assistance. From 1993 until 2013, Sally Low was a project designer, evaluator and manager in international development programs in Asia and the Pacific with an emphasis on the rebuilding of… Read more

Claude Farrère [penname of Frédéric-Charles Bargone] (27 April 1876, Lyon France - 21 June 1957, Paris) was a French Navy officer and a prolific writer known for his depiction of French colonialism in Saigon with Les civilisés, Prix Goncourt 1905 (he was 29 and was unknown in literary circles), for… Read more

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

Rachel Wheatcroft (10 Sept. 1868, Biéville [Beuville], Normandy, France - 25 March 1942, Coneys, Guildford, Surrey, UK) was a British visual artist who went to Siam and Cambodia around 1925, a journey that inspired her a book she illustrated with drawings and paintings in pastel colors.  Daughter… 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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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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