Nicolas Weber is a researcher in Southeast Asian studies, specializing in Cham ancient and modern history. With a PhD in Asia-Pacific Studies from Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO, France), he was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies,… Read more

Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan. 1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, geographer, linguist, Islamologist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia.At age 18 in 1882, Ferrand joined the Lyon merchant house of… Read more

Kitagawa Takako 北川香子 is a Japanese researcher who studied at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. In 2005, she published her research 'Kampot of the Belle Époque: From the Outlet of Cambodia to a Colonial Resort'. With a special interest in Cambodian pre-modern… Read more

Sakurai Yumio 桜井由躬雄 (31 Jan. 1945, Tokyo - 17 Dec. 2012) was an Japanese historian who specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, in particular its links with Japan. With doctorates from the University of Tokyo and (honorary) University of Vietnam, he authored several books and essays on early… Read more

Dr. James Campbell was a British naval surgeon, a naturalist and a geographer based in Bangkok in the 1850s-1870 where, as the 'physician to the British Legation', he treated the Queen of Siam and the small community of Western expatriates. According to Anna Leonowens, he attempted to save the life… Read more

Ajay Kamalakaran is an Indian independent researcher and writer who regularly contributes to the online magazine Scroll.in.Based in Mumbai, Ajay develops a special interest in Russia and ex-USSR, and has authored three books about or set in that country. He also published several essays on… Read more

Rüdiger Gaudes is a German linguist and Khmerologist who published a monumental (1330 pages) Worterbuch Khmer Deutsch (Khmer-German Dictionary) in 1985. Read more

David Olyphant King (1828, Newport, Rhode Island, USA - 1862?, American Civil War in Virginia), D.0. King, was an American businessman and traveler who gave a published account of Angkor and the Cambodian royal court at Oudong in 1859. D.O. King -- he was given the name of a close associate to his… 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

Mgr. Jean-Baptiste Pallegoix (24 Oct. 1805, Combertault, France – 18 June 1862, Bangkok, Siam (Thailand)), vicar apostolic of Eastern Siam from 1838 to his death, was a French missionary who extensively studied Thai language and society. A close friend of King Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam -- who… Read more

Meera Abraham (1929?- 16 Oct. 2014, Kadapra, Kerala, India) was an historian of Indian sea-faring merchant trade. Married to Indian diplomat Thomas Abraham (1927-2018), himself an historian who served as High Commissioner in Sri Lanka from 1928 to 1982 and advocated for the Tamil minority rights,… Read more

J.J. (Joseph Justus Zaddik) Belinfante (11 March 1821, Amsterdam - 2 Dec. 1882, Den Haag - The Hague) was a Dutch publicist, self-taught historian and journalist who contributed to the English publication of Henri Mouhot's notes, journal and letters related to Southeast Asia and Angkor.Born in an… Read more

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926, Newark, USA - 5 April 1997, New York) was an American poet, writer and social activist, initiator of the Beat Generation movement with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and a perceptive explorer of Hinduist and Buddhist cultures, especially after his first… Read more

Dr. Amba Pande is a researcher at the Centre for India-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, focusing on the history of Indian diaspora. Dr Pande has been a visiting faculty/scholar at University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), University of South Pacific… Read more

A former banker, the Director of the Sarasvati Research Center, and Chair of the Taksha center and Institute, Dr. Srinivasan Kalyanaraman has been researching for years the mighty Vedic River Sarasvati which, in its time, gave rise to an entire civilization and was lost without a trace. Studying… Read more

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (9 April 1879, London – 5 Jan. 1972, Exmouth) was a Irish-British illustrious painter known for his portraits (including those of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and for his graceful depictions of Southeast Asian princesses and female dancers.Born into… Read more

TRAN Ky-Phuong (Trần Kỳ Phương) is a research fellow at National Library of Singapore (January to July 2008),and a senior researcher fellow with the Vietnamese Association of Ethnic Minorities Culture and Arts. He was a curator of the Danang Museum of Champa Sculpture, Danang, from 1978 to 1998.… Read more

Olivier de Bernon (1957, Paris) is a linguist and researcher in Buddhism studies, an EFEO scientific member since 1991 and the author of the first catalog of Cambodian liturgical and sacred texts within the Fonds pour l'édition des manuscrits du Cambodge (FEMC), under the high patronage of H.M. the… Read more

Preap Chanmara is a Cambodian art historian and a professor at the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA).He has particularly studied the influence of Reamker in Khmer culture and society (watch his 2019 conference at Bophana Center -- in Khmer). Read more

Ingrid Muan (1964, Virginia, USA - 30 Jan. 2005, Phnom Penh) was a Doctor in Art History, an art teacher, and a passionate researcher on Cambodian traditional and modern arts since 1994, when she moved to Cambodia. Her PhD dissertation is “Citing Angkor: The “Cambodian Arts” in the Age of… Read more