Jules Roy (30 Jan. 1844, Trépillots, France - 5 March 1914) was a French historian, a professor at Ecole des Chartes and Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), and a close friend of Charles Mouhot, Henri Mouhot's brother. He published numerous historic essays, including L'An Mille (1878), Du role… Read more

Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935) was an American painter, art collector, and scholar of art history who was a tenant of the "pure design" theory. A professor of art at Harvard University and a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he gathered a huge private collection of Asian Art. Prof. Marie… Read more

Jan Fontein (22 May 1927, Naarden, Netherlands – 19 May 2017, Newton Upper Falls, MD, USA) was a Dutch art historian, museum curator and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1975 to 1987. Specialized in Indonesian archaeology and Easterrn Arts, Fontein started his career at the… Read more

Abby Seiff is an editor and independent journalist with nearly a decade of international experience, primarily in Southeast Asia. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Time, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Pacific Standard, and more publications. She served as an editor for several years at The… Read more

Created in Paris in 1946 at the initiative of Chauncey J. Hamlin (US), who became the first President of the organisation, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted its Code of Ethics in 1986. The organization lists more than 15,000 members worlwide. From 1996 on, ICOM reinforced its… Read more

Frédéric Gas-Faucher (1876, Marseille, France - 25 Feb. 1939, Marseille) was a French educator traveler whose relation of Cambodia in the 1910s, En sampan sur les lacs d'Angkor et du Cambodge (1922), has been consistently quoted and referred to. From his book, we know that his interest for Cambodia… Read more

Félix Gaspard Faraut (13 June 1846, Nice, France - 19 Aug. 1911, Phnom Penh) was a French archaeologist, engineer, artist, photographer and researcher who established the first repertory of Khmer monuments at the turn of the century.As the mechanic on the French war boat "La Javeline" in 1873,… Read more

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