Henri-Antoine-Marie-Joseph-Anatole Brenier (16 Aug 1867, Shanghai, China - 18 Feb 1962, Marseille, France) was a French journalist, economist, explorer, colonial administrator, merchant and writer who authored several studies on commercial exchanges with and from French Indochina in the 1890s,… Read more

Author of more than sixty books on archaeology and Ancient Khmer civilization research, Dr. Michel Tranet បណ្ឌិត មីសែល ត្រាណេ (b.1954, Phnom Penh) served as a secretary of state at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in the 1990s, ultimately resigning to protest the lack of involvement of… Read more

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"Teacher, artist, learner". Founder of the Digital Imaging Project--MAS/BC, Bluffton University, Ohio, USA. Read more

Photographer Laurent Weyl (b.1971, Strasbourg, France) has worked extensively in Asia, especially in Vietnam where he lived from 2011 until 2016. He specializes in social-ethnological reports, for instance on global refugee populations and ethnic minorities. A member of the Collectif Argos, he has… Read more

Dr. Brigitte Borell-Seidel is a independent researcher associated with the Institute for Classical and Byzantine Archeology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, who lived several years in Southeast Asia. She has extensively studied glassware and artefacts from Ancient China and Southeast Asia, and… Read more

Wilhelm Schmidt (16 Feb. 1868, Hörde, Germany — 10 Feb. 1954, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a German anthropologist and linguist, and a Roman Catholic priest active in the Society of the Divine Word, who led the influential cultural-historical European school of ethnology and proponed in 1906 the… Read more

Course Director at Benaras Hindu University, Mumbai, Swati Chemburkar studies the interconnection between Khmer arts and Indian civilization.An architect and historian, she teaches Southeast Asia art history at the Jnanapravaha Institute in Mumbai. Swati Chemburkar has done several field researches… Read more

General Léon de Beylié (1840, Strasbourg - 1910, Tha Dua Pass, Laos) was a French colonial military officer as well as a tireless archeologist and collector of Islamic, Byzantine, Hindu and Buddhist art. His sum on Hinduist architecture (L'Architecture Hindoue, Paris, 1907) includes important… Read more

Georges Louis Condominas (29 June 1921, Haiphong – 17 July 2011, Paris) was a renowned cultural anthropologist.A specialist of South East Asia (his mother had Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese roots, his father a French navy officer), he has been described as the 'Proust of ethnology'. His field… Read more

Specialized in pre-Thai polities, archeologist and art historian Pierre Dupont (1908, Paris -1955, Bangkok) has particularly studied the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati which predated the Sukhothai, Chiang Mai or Ayutthaya kingdoms that thrieve between the 13th and the 15 centuries. First at École du… Read more

A Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris), Michel Rethy Antelme (មីស្ហែល ឫទ្ធី អង់តែល្ម) is a linguist, translator and historian specialized in Ancient and Modern Khmer. He has taught translation and linguistics in Cambodia, authored several… Read more

Joseph Gervais alias Alfred Raquez (1 June 1864 (?), Dunkerque - 9 Jan. 1907, Marseille, France) was a prolific writer, photographer, traveler and editor who vividly described China, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Annam, and Java at the turn of the century.Declared bankrupt in March 1898 after some… Read more

Colleena Shakti is a sacred dance performer based in Rajasthan (India) and Greece.As a teacher, founder of the Shakti School Dance, and as a performer wishing to bring together yoga practice and entertaining folk or court dance, Colleena has been a major actor on the Rajasthan cultural scene,… Read more

Pierre Grison (?-Dec. 1985) was a freelance researcher and sinologist who spent seven years in the Far East after World War II, studying countries, men, civilisations and doctrines, and publishing contributions on topics as diverse as Buddhist art, Chinese secret societies, the Caodai sect in… 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

Thun Theara (Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia) is an historian researching the cultural and political history of mainland Southeast Asia. After graduating from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in 2008, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to pursue an M.A. in Southeast… 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

Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural and intellectual historian of early South Asia, and a Sanskritist. An Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, she has also been the Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale… Read more

Jean Dorsenne or 'Dorsennus' [pen-name of Étienne Troufleau] (1892, Constantine, Algeria - 6 March 1944, Buchenwald concentration camp) was a French reporter and novelist who stayed in Tahiti from 1922 to 1926, traveled around Indochina during the 1930s, published many essays, biographies, history… Read more