An archaeologist and archaeobotanist with University College of London (UCL), Dorian Fuller (b. San Francisco) has worked widely in archaeobotany and archaeological field in Africa, the Middle East and across Asia. He is actively engaged in fieldwork projects in many parts of India (since 1997),… Read more

Thirachaya Maneenetr Director of Center for Asia-Pacific Tourism Research, Faculty of Management Science, Khon Kaen University Email: Read more

Terry E. Miller (19 Feb.1945, Dover, Ohio, USA) is Professor Emeritus at the School of Music, Kent State University, Ohio. A US Army chaplain in the 1960's, he started field studies on ethnic music around Southeast Asia, becoming a specialist in Thai and Vietnam musical forms.Co-founder of the… Read more

Louise Shewan is the Centenary Fellow (Science) based in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her current archaeology project is the 'Plain of Jars Archaeological Project'. The network of some 90 sites across modern Laos has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List since… Read more

薄琳 BO Lin is originally from Hanshan, China and has lived in Cambodia since 2015. Two years after she graduated with a degree in law, she decided to focus on business and ran her own coffee shop at a university in Beijing. After moving to Cambodia, she began teaching Chinese, working as a… Read more

Director of the PhD program at Mahidol University, College of Religious Studies (Thailand), Julia Estève studied History of Religions at the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and Philosophy at Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the different components of the pre-modern Khmer… Read more

Vin Laychour វិន ឡៃជួ is an archaeologist member of the Faculty of Archaeology at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, specializing in prehistory and Vietnamese history. Read more

Nils Tremmel is an independent historian and researcher who launched The Angkor Guide website in the 1990s. In 1997, he self-published his translation of Maurice Glaize's Guide des monuments d'Angkor.His personal website shows that he also studied the history of Haiti, and the Wonderland Trail in… Read more

Frà Odorico (Frère Odoric) of Pordenone (1286, Pordenone, Friul - 14 Jan.1331, Udine, Friul-Venezia), also known as Odorico Mattiussi/Mattiuzzi, was a Franciscan friar of Czech origin who traveled extensively in Asia from 1318 to 1330, and left writings that give precious information on 14th… Read more

Joseph-Georges Ganin (23 Sept. 1840, Paris - [presumed] 6 Oct. 1873, Cartagena, Spain), also know as J.G.G. D'Abin or D'Abain, was a French adventurer, a globe-trotter, a military man fighting for nationalists and republicans, a pamphletist who spent several years in Siam and Cambodia, presumably… Read more

Matsubara Kosuke (b. 1973, Kanagawa, Japan) is Associate Professor of the Department of Social Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He completed the Environmental Design Program of the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, and received his Ph.D. He specializes in the… Read more

Jean Filliozat (4 Nov 1906, Paris, France – 27 Oct 1982, Paris) was a French linguist specialized in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil, who, as an ophtalmologist initially, studied the history and philosophy of Indian medecine with an emphasis on Ayurveda.According to Arion Rosu's biographical note… Read more

L. Charles was a "capitaine au long cours" [master mariner] of the French Merchant Navy and a corresponding member of Société de Géographie commerciale de Bordeaux, created in 1874, who visited Cambodia and the court of King Norodom I as early as 1870. In addition of his account of Cambodia, we… Read more

Ulrich Theobald is a German researcher on Chinese history specializing in the economic, military, and administrative history of late imperial China, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany since 2016.One of his current projects investigates the impact of… 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

Ferdinand Tugnot de Lanoye (1810, Gray, France –1870, Paris) was a French writer specializing in travel writing.Not an explorer himself, he (with A. Hervé) published numerous books drawing from the diaries and memoirs of famous travelers, such as:Voyages dans les glaces du Pôle arctique à la… Read more

Martin Lerner, Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) for 31 years (1972-2003) is an art historian who became entangled in the controversy around Cambodian looted art for his connections with Douglas Latchford in the years 2000s-2010s. In a report dated 18… Read more

Kang Heejung is the Director of the Institute for East Asian Studies and professor of the Graduate Program in Southeast Asian Studies at Sogang University, Korea, specializing in Buddhist Art History of East Asia and Southeast Asia.With a Ph.D. degree in Art History at Seoul National University,… Read more

Professor in mainland Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA, Australian-born Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski (Trudy Jacobsen) has worked at Monash University and Griffith University, the Swedish School for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies and the School of Oriental and African… Read more

French sinologist and linguist Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878, Paris-1945) came across the oldest written account on Angkor, The Customs of Cambodia by Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, while he was researching the travelogues of famous explorer Marco Polo and the collection of Dunhuang manuscripts.… Read more