Princess Hélène of Orléans (Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans, Duchess of Aosta by marriage, pen name: Hélène d'Aosta or Elena Savoia) (13 June 1871, York House, Twickenham, England – 21 January 1951, Castellammare di Stabia, Italy) was a French aristocrat and a prolific travel… Read more

Born in Kompong Cham Province, Hok Sokol is a Cambodian architect and researcher in history of architecture, specializing in traditional wooden building techniques and materials.After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (RUFA, Phnom Penh), Sokol joined the ARK Project… Read more

George Benjamin Walker (also George B. Walker, Benjamin Walker, Jivan Bhakar) (25 November 1913, Calcutta, British India (Kolkata) – 30 July 2013, ?) was an Indian-British author on religion, philosophy, mysticism, a poet, satirist and the first writer to publish an encyclopedia on Hinduism (Hindu… Read more

Kweiku-Kyei Afrifa Yamoah is a hydrologist and climate researcher from Ghana.His PhD thesis in 2016 at Stockholm University, Sweden, dealt with the reconstruction of the South-East Asian hydro-climate using biomarkers and their hydrogen isotopic composition, in particular regarding Angkor.Dr.… Read more

陈佳荣著 Chen Jiarong (also Aaron Chen, Chan Kai Wing, b. 22 Dec 1937, Quanzhou, Fujian, China) is a Chinese historian who has researched exchanges and communications between ancient China and Southeast Asia, in particular the Funan polities. While teaching modern world history and historiography, Dr.… Read more

Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat is a researcher at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University (Australia). He specializes in Mythology and Folklore, Indian Religions and History of Religion.Dr. Bapat has completed a translation from Marathi into English of an… Read more

Ian William Mabbett (b. 27 Apr 1939, London, UK) is a historian and educator whose research focuses on history of religions and social organization, in particular Buddhism and Hinduism.A honorary professor at Aichi Bunkyo University, Aichi, Japan, I.W. Mabbett has also taught at Princeton… Read more

Isabella Lucy Bird (married name Bishop) (15 Oct. 1831, Boroughbridge Hall, Yorkshire – 7 Oct. 1904, Edinburgh), was a 19th-century British traveler, writer, photographer, and naturalist. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England. After publishing her… Read more

Louis Malleret (28 Nov 1901, Clermont-Ferrand, France - 16 Mar 1970, Louveciennes, France) was a French educator, historian, archaeologist, curator and the directeur of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) in 1942-1947 (interim) and from 1950 to 1956.In the 1930s-1940s, Malleret was the curator… Read more

Lois Conner (b. 1951, New York City, USA) is an American photographer and professor of photography who has published several acclaimed books on China and Tibet, and has extensively traveled around Asia. Her work is permanently exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC, Lausanne (Switzerland) and… Read more

Carl Newland Werntz (9 July 1874, Sterling IL, USA - 7 Oct 1944, Mexico City, Mexico) was an American impressionist artist,fine arts photographer, illustrator, cartoonist and educator who founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and traveled extensively around Asia, in particular Japan, Bali,… Read more

Trương Vĩnh Ký (張永記), also known as Pétrus Ky or Jean-Baptiste Pétrus (6 Dec 1837, Vĩnh Long Province -1 Sep 1898, Saigon, now in Vietnam) was a Vietnamese linguist, teacher and translator whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe.After his father's death… Read more

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 Mar 1830, Sainte Foy la Grande, France – 4 July 1905, Torhout, Belgium) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, a free-thinker advocating for 'unions libres' and nudism, whose monumental work in 19 volumes, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et… Read more

Chutima Janthed is a researcher at the Royal Thai Fine Arts Department, Phimai. Thailand. Read more

Sarah Talbot is a researcher at the Anthropology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Read more

Auguste-Léopold dit André Silice(1880, Nancy - 1951, Phnom Penh) was a French visual artist and the Director of Phnom Penh Ecole des Arts from 1922 to 1944. The School had been founded by George Groslier, who directed it from 1918 to 1922. In charge of the Sculpted Marble Workshop in Pursat since… Read more

George T. Bliss (1927, Sarasota, Florida, USA - 8 Aug 2009, Sarasota) was a sculptor and photographer who spent many years in Africa and Southeast Asia as a USAID worker. His photographs illustrated George Coedès' seminal book, Angkor: An Introduction (1963). Read more

Emily Delafield Floyd Gardiner (1905, Mastic Estate, New York, USA -1994) was an American socialite, a literary editor and translator.Married to US Economic Counselor and State Department official Arthur Zimmerman Gardiner (1901-1975) -- who resigned in protest against the US war in Vietnam in 1967… Read more

Siyonn Sophearith is a lecturer of Cambodian History and Art History at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, and the Director General of the Department of Statistics and Planning at the Intangible Culture Heritage Committee for Cambodia, UNESCO. He is also the Director of Khmer… Read more

Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson (b. 1948) is an indologist and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford, where he was Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics until his retirement in 2015.A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian religions, he specializes in Shaivism and esoteric Śaiva… Read more