The Bangkok Literature and Fine Arts Department กองวรรณคดีและประวัติศาสตร์ กรมศิลปากร is a section of the Thailand National Library dedicated to the preservation and edition of ancient Siamese and Thai manuscripts. Note: Since the 2025 border tension between Thailand and Cambodia, access to its… Read more

Richard Cabot Howland (b. 11 April 1934, New York) served as an American career diplomat and intelligence officer since 1960, and was on rotation in Phnom Penh from 1961 to 1963, when he was involved in the Thai-Cambodia negotiations related to the Preah Vihear temple and the outlining of the… Read more

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (b. 1944, Basel) is Professor Emerita of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, and a former curator at the Ethnographic Museum in Basel, Switzerland, who has carried out extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Papua… Read more

Sylvia Nam [or Sylvia Geehae Nam] is a California-based interdisciplinary researcher specializing in the study of legal systems in post-conflict and postcolonial contexts, examining how law and governance intersect in moments of transition, an Assistant Professor of anthropology with a PhD in City… Read more

Thomas Kolnberger (b. 5 March 1968, Salzburg, Austria) is a Research Associate in History at University of Luxemburg specializing in Historical and Urban Geography, Sepulchral Culture and Military History.He studied history at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna (Austria), with his doctoral… Read more

Richard A. Engelheardt is an American heritage conservation expert, anthropologist and archeologist who served as UNESCO Regional Advisor [Asia-Pacific] from 1994 to 2008, and Senior Advisor from 2008 to 2010, becoming a leading force in the international cooperation for the restoration of Angkor… Read more

Mattani Mojdara Rutnin [Rattanin] มัทนี โมชดารา รัตนิน (b. 1st May 1937) is a former professor of drama and literature at Thammasat University, Bangkok, a former dancer trained in Thai classical dance, Western ballet, and modern dance from childhoo, an actress and theater director who worked with… Read more

Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier (6 Feb. 1877, Marseille, France - 15 Jan. 1934, in a plane crash near Corbigny (Nièvre), France), was a colonial administrator in French Indochina since 1908 and Governor-General [gouverneur général] of French Indochina from 4 Oct. 1926 to 16 May 1927 (acting for… Read more

Denys Lombard (4 Feb. 1938, Marseille – 8 Jan. 1998, Paris, France) was a French historian and researcher specializing in South East Asia, in particular Indonesia, who headed École Français d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1993 to 1998.He initiated his career as EFEO member in Jakarta (1966-1969)… Read more

Richard "Dick" Halliburton (9 Jan. 1900, Brownsville, Tennessee, U.S.– presumed dead in the Pacific Ocean after 24 March 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who, after running a successful publishing career, disappeared at sea while attempting to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon,… Read more

Ewing Galloway (6 Dec. 1880, Little Dixie, Kentucky, US - 23 June 1953, Henderson, KY) was an American journalist and the founder of the Galloway [or Ewing Galloway] Agency in 1920, the largest photo agency in America before World War II.First a lawyer and city prosecutor in Kentucky, he switched… Read more

Nola Cooke is an Australian independent researcher focusing on 19th century history of Chinese communities in Cochinchina and Cambodia, pre-dynastic southern Nguyen realm (Cochinchina) and early Vietnamese Catholicism, and Chinese revenue farming in Cambodia, exploring previously unknown or… Read more

Jaroslav Poncar (b.1945 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [Czechia]) is a former professor of photo engineering and a renowned photographer who worked for several German publishers and institutions as well as exploring the technique of panoramic photography in the 1970s while self-publishing his work and… Read more

Eugène Hyppolyte Léopold Marie Manen (30 July 1829, Toulouse – 21 May 1897, Paris) was a French naval hydrographer and cartographer who rose to ingénieur en chef de la Marine and headed the French Navy’s Hydrography Service. Trained at the École polytechnique (entered 1849; hydrographic engineer,… Read more

Melanie Eastburn is an Australian museum curator, Senior Curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) since 2016, who worked at Phnom Penh National Museum of Cambodia in 2003-2004.Born and raised in Papua New Guinea's Highlands - her father, David Eastburn, was a… Read more

Seang Sokha is a Cambodian researcher at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology (UK), specializing in Khmer art history, museology and cultural studies related to Southeast Asia.He graduated in 2011 from Chulalongkorn… Read more

Chaitanya Sambrani is an Indian-Australian art historian and curator specializing in contemporary art in Asia, and a researcher at the Australian National University (ANU). After studying at the Art Criticism at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, India, and completing a Ph.D. in Art… Read more

Pham Kim Khanh, also known as Phạm Kim Khánh, Kim Khanh, Sunanda Pham Kim Khanh (10 Jan. 1921, Ben Tre [Bến Tre], Vin Long Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam - 27 Feb. 2011, Seattle, WA, USA) was a photographer and photo-reporter active in Cambodia in the years 1950s and 1960s, and later on a Buddhist… Read more

Guy Porée (1902-1985) was a French writer, ethnologist and photographer who explored Cambodian culture after getting close to researcher Eveline Maspero at Paris Institut des Langues Orientales [Oriental Languages Institute] where they were both studying Chinese language in the mid-20s, and living… Read more

Dorothy Fall born Winer (b. 7 April 1930, Rochester, NY, USA) is an American artist, graphic designer and writer who published in 2006 a book of memories on famous war correspondent and political scientist Bernard Fall (1926-1967), her husband since 20 February 1954 and the father of their three… Read more