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

Herbert Warington Smyth, "Warington" (4 June 1867 – 19 Dec. 1943, Redruth, UK) was a British traveler, writer, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam in the 1890s and later held several posts in the Union of South Africa. Warington went to Siam in 1890 as an unpaid… Read more

Émile Gsell (30 Dec 1838, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France - 16 Oct. 1879, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh Ville,Vietnam) was a self-taught French photographer who produced among the earliest photographs of Angkor Wat when he joined the Mekong Exploration Expedition led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée… Read more

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Pyiet Phyo Kyaw is a Professor of Archaelogy at University of Mandalay, Mandaly, Myanmar. He has conducted numerous researches on the Bagan site and the Bronze Age in Burma. Read more

Neha Jain is a freelance science writer based in Hong Kong committed to sharing science and sustainability stories.Before turning to writing, she worked in a cancer research lab and facilitated science learning among elementary school children through fun, hands-on experiments. Her science blog… Read more

Tyta Buth, artist name Tytaart (b. 3 Nov. 1996, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a Cambodian photographer who developed her passion while studying at the New York Parsons School of Art and Design. After exploring street candid photography, she has focused since her return to Cambodia on portrait… Read more

Amir Dan Aczel (6 Nov 1950, Haifa, Israel- 26 Nov 2015, Nimes, France) was an Israeli-born American mathermatician, lecturer in the history of mathematics and science, and author of books accessible to a large public who researched in particular the origins of "0". He has recounted how, while… Read more

Albert Savine (20 Apr 1859, Aigues-Mortes, France -- 6 June 1927, Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French writer, journalist, translator, publisher and penpusher who often went after lucrative yet reprehensible assignments -- a series of blatantly antisemitic pamphlets, for instance -- but died in… Read more

Prof. Adhir Chakravarti (24 Apr 1932, Kotalipara (now in Bangladesh - 20 Dec  1993, New Delhi, India) was a Sanskritist and Indian historian who studied extensively Southeast Asian cultures and Indian influences there.After studying under Dr. Niharranjan Ray's supervision, he worked with the… Read more

Lia Genovese is an independent researcher specializing in the archaeology of French Indochina, the Plain of Jars and other megalithic expressions in Laos and the region. Her current projects include a critical biography of the French archaeologist Madeleine Colani.With a PhD from SOAS University of… Read more

Charya Burt is a master dancer; choreographer, vocalist and teacher of Classical Cambodian Dance, the founding artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, a dance ensemble based in San Francisco North Bay, California, USA.Charya Burt's training began shortly after the Khmer Rouge genocide… Read more

John Burgess (1951, North Carolina, USA) first visited Cambodia in 1969, in his teen years. The son of a diplomatic family, he lived in India, Indonesia, and Thailand as a child. A former Washington Post foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, he is the author of Stories in Stones: The Sdok Kok… Read more

Alfred Salmony (10 Nov 1890, Cologne [Köln], Germany - 29 Apr 1958, Atlantic Ocean, heart attack aboard Ile-de- France ocean liner) was a museum curator and professor specializing in East Asian art, art of the Eurasian steppes, and Chinese jades, who also studied Southeast Asian art during his long… Read more

Pierre Singaravélou (b. 18 Jan 1977, Bordeaux, France) is a French historian, a British Academy Global Professor of History at King's College, London, a Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the director of the Center for Asian History (Sorbonne). He specializes… Read more

Charles Mouhot (1828 - 1904) was a younger brother of Henri Alexandre Mouhot, the famous French explorer who gave a vivid description of Angkor in 1859. Just a year after Henri's death in Laos in 1861, Charles Mouhot completed the English translation of his brother's travelogue, Travels in the… Read more

An indianist and renowned researcher in Indian and Khmer arts, Mireille Bénisti (1909-1993) completed her studies at École du Louvre under the guidance of Philippe Stern. She also studied Sanskrit and History of Art at EHESS and College de France. Joining the Centre national de la recherche… Read more

Hubert de Mestier du Bourg (25 Nov 1945, Paris) is an independent researcher and a consultant for various organizations in Japan.After studying at McGill University, Montreal, Institute of Comparative Law in Paris, National School of Oriental Languages (INALCO), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes… Read more

Capt. Boonyarit Chaisuwan is the Director of the Underwater Archaeology Division, Royal Thai Fine Arts Department. A graduate in archaeology from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, he first worked as a curator at the History and Military Museum, Thailand Ministry of Defense, before being transferred to… Read more

French-Khmer poetess and novelist Makhali-Phal (Nelly-Pierrette Guesde (21 Sep. 1898, Phnom Penh - 15 Nov. 1965, Pau, France) was brought to France in 1906 with the Cambodian Royal Court during the official visit to Exposition Universelle de Marseille, yet wrote almost exclusively about the… Read more