French, Lindsay Lindsay French is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island, USA. She graduated from Harvard University. Read more
Wijker, Pelle Pelle Wijker is a PhD candidate in archaeology at Sorbonne Paris and CNRS, specializing in the comparative study of Khmer and Maya civilizations ('Urbanisme Khmer et Maya : analyse comparative des modèles de peuplement à l'aide d'ensemble de données Lidar'). Read more
Jenner, Philip N. Philip Norman Jenner (16 Oct 1921, Seattle, USA - 4 Jan 2013, Olympia, USA) was a Professor Emeritus of Cambodian and Southeast Asian linguistics, author of several dictionaries and grammar manuals of Old and Middle Khmer. At age 11, he discovered his passion for ancient languages when learning… Read more
Falser, Michael S. Born in 1973, Michael S. Falser is a professor and researcher in Art History at Heidelberg University, and recently visiting professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. Read more
Boeles, J.J. Jan Jetso Boeles (1909, Leeuwarden - ?) was a Dutch independent researcher and photographer based in Thailand for many years. In 1976-1978, he photographed the Phimai temple and the Wat Sethupon in Bangkok. He directed the Siam Society Research Center, and was an honorary member of the Siam… Read more
Pan Hla, Nai Dr.Nai Pan Hla is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of A short Mon History (Myanmar Knowledge Society, Yangon, 2013). Dr. Pan Hla has also published Eleven Mon Dhammasāt Texts (collected… Read more
Janneau, Gustave J.A. Gustave Jean-Auguste Janneau (1843, Parthenay, France - 21 June 1872, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French anthropologist, philologist and interpreter who left several unpublished manuscripts on Cambodian and Vietnamese languages and cultures, in addition to the first comprehensive study on the Khmer… Read more
Pym, Christopher Christopher Pym (13 Jan 1929, Bristol, UK - 1 Dec 2001, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK) was a writer, a researcher on Cambodia's history and culture, and a local politician challenging the two-party system.A National Service officer during World War II, he was initially sent to Cambodia by… Read more
Kamalakaran, Ajay 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
Churchill Candee, Helen Helen Churchill Candee (1858, New York City – 1949, York Harbor, Main) was an American author, journalist, interior designer, active feminist, geographer, whose book about Angkor, Angkor The Magnificent (1924), is regarded as the first major English-language study of the ancient Khmer temples.A… Read more
Choulean, Ang Ang Choulean អាំង ជូលាន (1 Jan 1949, Kompong Kleang, Cambodia) is an anthropologist, a professor of historical anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and a former Director of the Department of Culture of APSARA. He was the second Cambodian national to be granted the Fukuoka Grand Prize… Read more
Despujols, Jean Jean Despujols (19 March 1886, Salles en Gironde, France - 1965, Shreveport, USA) was a French -- later naturalized American in 1945 -- painter who extensively pictured Angkor and Indochina through his artwork. A pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux who won the Prix de Rome… Read more
Thomson, John Scottish photographer and geographer John Thomson (14 June 1837, Edinburgh – 29 Sept. 1921, Edinburgh) was a pioneer in photographying the ruins of Angkor in 1866, part of his ten-year long travel stint across Asia after joining his elder brother William in Singapore in 1862.When he left for the… Read more
Izu, Kenro Kenro Izu (井津 建郎, Izu Kenrō, 1949, Osaka, Japan) is a worldwide acclaimed photographer who published two books on Angkor, Light Over Ancient Angkor (Friends Without A Border, 1996, with all proceeds donated to the association he founded) and Passage to Angkor (id., 2006, with poems by Helen… Read more
Sahai, Sachchidanand Sachchidanand Sahai (6 March 1941, Bihar, India) is an Indian epigraphist, scholar and writer who wrote several essays on Angkorean civilization, and served as scientific advisor to the Government of Cambodia for the restoration of Angkor Wat and the Temple of Preah Vihear. His study on the latter… Read more
Thavarajah, Mohanapriyan Born on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, Mohanapriyan Thavarajah is a young male Bharatanatyam artist and choreographer based in Singapore, as a principal dancer, resident choreographer and dance faculty member with Apsaras Arts Dance Company and Academy. Studying various Southeast Asian dance… Read more
ICOM Created in Paris in 1946 at the initiative of Chauncey J. Hamlin (US), who became the first President of the organisation, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted its Code of Ethics in 1986. The organization lists more than 15,000 members worlwide. From 1996 on, ICOM reinforced its… Read more