Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 Mar 1830, Sainte Foy la Grande, France – 4 July 1905, Torhout, Belgium) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist, a free-thinker advocating for 'unions libres' and nudism, whose monumental work in 19 volumes, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et… Read more

Mamta Dwivedi is a post-doctoral researcher at Freiburg University, specialized in Early Historic South Asia, Numismatics and Religion.Her PhD dissertation in 2011 was 'Yaudheya Coins: Exploring Numismatics as a Source of History (c. 300 B.C. to c. A.D 300.)' (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New… Read more

Colin Grafton (b. London, England, 1947) is a traveller-photographer who came to Asia overland in 1969. He taught English in Laos from 1970 to 1972 and in Cambodia from 1973 to 1975, leaving Phnom Penh a few days before the takeover by the Khmer Rouge. He was able to photograph one of the last… Read more

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Art historian associated with Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Nadine André-Pallois has published several studies on Indochina painters, in particular from Vietnam. Read more

Thirachaya Maneenetr Director of Center for Asia-Pacific Tourism Research, Faculty of Management Science, Khon Kaen University Email: Read more

薄琳 BO Lin is originally from Hanshan, China and has lived in Cambodia since 2015. Two years after she graduated with a degree in law, she decided to focus on business and ran her own coffee shop at a university in Beijing. After moving to Cambodia, she began teaching Chinese, working as a… Read more

Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (21 Nov. 1865, Lorient - 30 Oct. 1952, Sceaux, France, was a French archaeologist, philologist, art and religion historian specialized in Buddhist iconography, a member of the French Société Asiatique and the Commission archéologique de l'Indochine, and the Director… Read more

Rotanak Ros, Chef Nak, is a Cambodian chef who published several books on her country's cuisine, and is active on social media channel. Late 2022, she launched her Luxury Home Dining experience in Pekluong, not far from downtown Phnom Penh on the bank of the Mekong River.Chef Nak's website:… Read more

Andrew Harris is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Southeast Asian Archaeology and Numismatics at National University of Singapore, Singapore, investigating ancient coin production and distribution across premodern Southeast Asia using machine learning. He is Director of the Angkor Vihara… Read more

Jules Ferdinand Marec (4 May 1881, Lorient, France - 13 March 1957, Saint-Sauveur-Sur-Ecole, Seine et Marne, France) was a French military cartographer and explorer who was the first to survey the site of Banteay Srei in January 1914, and sent two statue and stone elements from the temple to Phnom… Read more

Ly Theam Teng លីធាមតេង 李添丁 [also Li Dham Ten] (15 May 1930, Kompong Siem District - 1978, captive of the Khmer Rouge) was a Sino-Khmer researcher and author who wrote many essays and novels that became Cambodian literature classics, and authored the first Khmer translation of Zhou Daguan's 13th… Read more

George D. Bonnyman (?-?) was a British Navy officer, Captain of the brig Pantaloon when the ship was commissioned for a commercial exploratory trip to Cambodia and Siam in February-June 1851, and again in September-November of that year.Little is known of him, except that he left notices on the… Read more

Professor in mainland Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA, Australian-born Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski (Trudy Jacobsen) has worked at Monash University and Griffith University, the Swedish School for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies and the School of Oriental and African… Read more

Fray Gabriel de San Antonio (1565?-1608) was a Dominican priest who wrote about the expansion of Spanish colonial endeavors in South East Asia, and counted among the first European visitors to Angkor. Hailing from the nobiliary, he studied theology in Ocaña and Salamanca Dominican convents before… Read more

Samdech Chaufea ('Lord Excellency', in Khmer) Thiounn (8 Apr. 1864, Kompong Chhnang - Sep. 1946, Phnom Penh), also called Oknha Veang Thiounn ឧកញ៉ា វ៉ាង ជួន, was Minister of The Royal Palace and Treasury, and Minister of Fine Arts under the French Protectorate. He started his public career as an… Read more

An archaeologist and archaeobotanist with University College of London (UCL), Dorian Fuller (b. San Francisco) has worked widely in archaeobotany and archaeological field in Africa, the Middle East and across Asia. He is actively engaged in fieldwork projects in many parts of India (since 1997),… Read more

Terry E. Miller (19 Feb.1945, Dover, Ohio, USA) is Professor Emeritus at the School of Music, Kent State University, Ohio. A US Army chaplain in the 1960's, he started field studies on ethnic music around Southeast Asia, becoming a specialist in Thai and Vietnam musical forms.Co-founder of the… Read more

Louise Shewan is the Centenary Fellow (Science) based in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her current archaeology project is the 'Plain of Jars Archaeological Project'. The network of some 90 sites across modern Laos has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List since… Read more

Director of the PhD program at Mahidol University, College of Religious Studies (Thailand), Julia Estève studied History of Religions at the École pratique des Hautes Études in Paris and Philosophy at Sorbonne University. Her research focuses on the different components of the pre-modern Khmer… Read more