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

Ly Daravuth is a Cambodian art historian and publicist who co-founded (with Ingrid Muan) in December 1998 Reyum Publishing, a Phnom Penh publishing house part of the Reyum Institute of Arts and Culture. Many reference and art books have been issued under the Reyum label until 2009. Read more

Poum Measbandol "Bandol" (1988, Phnom Penh - 21 Dec. 2023, Siem Reap, Cambodia) was a Cambodian architect, artist and architecture illustrator who collected period photographs and documents related to the history of his country, with an accent on architecture.During his too short life, Bandol was… Read more

Liu Hangxing is a Doctor in Archaeology who joined the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage in 2018.Specializing in palace ruins archaelogy and restoration, he will publish his first monograph, Archaeology and Conservation History of Angkor, has been completed and is being proofread by the… Read more

Martin Stuart-Fox (b. 1939) is a retired Australian professor and journalist specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, primarily Laos, and in Buddhism philosophy and practice. A field reporter for UPI in Laos in 1963, he moved to Vietnam in 1965-1966, covering the war along with his brother… Read more

Panggah Ardiyansyah is an educator at the Borobodur Conservation Office, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. Specializing in art history and conservation, While curating roving exhibitions on Borobodur Temple across Indonesia, he is an editorial board member of… Read more

Louise Thytacott is Professor of Asian Art at Norhumbria University, and a former Professor in Curating and Museology at SOAS London. She has been researching the issue of art restitution worldwide for many years, and her books include Museums and Restitutions: New Practices, New Approaches (edited… Read more

Katalin Puskas Khetani is an architect and independent researcher from Hungary, currently based in Kuala Lumpur.She researches history of architecture and the paths to sustainable architecture. In her 2020 essay on the Quest for the Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture in the Digital Age, she… Read more

Léon Busy (19 Apr. 1874, Paris - 1951, Paris) was a French photographer and curator who edited and participated to numerous photo collections about colonial Indochina, Angkor and Southeast Asian daily life. Initially a soldier (graduated from the prestigious Polytechnique school) with the French… Read more

Fujihara Sadao 藤原貞朗 is a Japanese historian specialized in the history of colonial Indochina.A professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ibaraki University (茨城大学人文学部), he is the author of Orientalisuto no yūutsu. Shokuminchi shugi jidai no Furansu tōyō gakusha to Ankōru iseki no kōkogaku… Read more