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

Kirit Mankodi (b. 1940) is an Indologist and professor of Archaeology specializing in tracing looted or illegaly purchased looted Indian artworks. After receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. in Archaeology from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Poona University, he worked at the American… Read more

Ly Vanna is a Cambodian archaeologist and the Director of the Department of Conservation of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology at Apsara Authority since 2010. With a PhD in Area Studies from the University of Sophia, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, he was a research fellow at the University of Kanazawa,… Read more

NGUYỄN Thị Tú Anh (Tu-Anh Thi Nguyen) is a PhD candidate in History of Art, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. She graduated from SOAS, University of London in 2017-19 with a Diploma and Master of Art degree in History of Art and… Read more

Sunil Gupta is an Indian archaeologist and researcher, and the Director of the Allahabad Museum, Allahabad, India. His PhD thesis in 1998 (Deccan College Postgraduate Institute, University of Pune, India) was titled: ‘Roman Egypt to Peninsular India: Archaeological Patterns of Trade, 1st century BC… Read more

Jacques Deprat (31 Jul. 1880, Fontenay aux Roses, France - 7 March 1935, Ansaberre, Ansó, Pyrénées, Spain, in a mountaineering accident) was a biologist, paleontologist and novelist working in Indochina (Hanoi) in the 1910s, who was apparently wrongly accused of fraud and left Southeast Asia in… Read more

A Scottish surgeon, colonial administrator, diplomat, and author who served as the second and last Resident of Singapore, Dr John Crawfurd (13 Aug 1783, Islay, Scotland – 11 May 1868, London, UK) visited Siam and Cochinchina in 1821-1822, during a diplomatic mission commandited by the… Read more

Jean Moura (3 Apr 1827, Moissac, France - 17 May 1885) was a French Navy officer, civil administrator, Khmerologist and explorer who authored one of the first exhaustive descriptions of Cambodia and Angkor, Le Royaume du Cambodge (1883).While lieutenant de vaisseau (Lt.) Moura was thrice the… Read more