William Young Willetts (28 Nov. 1918, Purton Stoke, UK-30 Jan.1995, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was a British researcher in the field of South-East Asian and Chinese art studies, who served as curator of the National University of Singapore art museum from 1963 to 1972. A specialist in ceramics, he… 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

Thun Theara ធុន ធារ៉ា (b. Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian 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… Read more

Dr. Arsenio Nicolas is a musicologist, philologist and historian of the performing arts from the Philippines, specialized in Southeast Asian musical forms and instruments. With a PhD. from Cornell University, USA, Dr. Arsenio Nicolas is a visiting professor at the College of Music at Mahasarakham… Read more

Derek Thiam Soon Heng (Singapore) is ]a professor of history at Northern Arizona University specializing in diplomatic and economic relations in the East Indian Ocean and South China Sea in the pre-modern era. Co-author of Singapore: A Seven-Hundred Year History, published by Singapore (Institute… Read more

Chhay Rachna is a Cambodian archaelogist, Head of Ceramic Study Office, International Center of Research and Documentation of Angkor, APSARA Authority, Siem Reap, since 2015. A specialist in Angkor Ceramics Arts, Chhay Rachna graduated from the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts,… Read more

Dr. Susan Verma Mishra is an Indian archaelogist and historian who published with Himanshi Prabha Ray The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces : The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE - 8th century CE (Taylor & Francis, London, 2016), focusing on the religious shrine in western India as an… Read more

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is an Indian social anthropologist specialized in Dance Studies and Visual Anthropology. A professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, she is also a choreographer who trained at Uday… Read more

Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray (15 Aug. 1947) is an Indian Sanskrit scholar, historian, and archaeologist focusing on maritime history and archaeology. A recipient of the Anneliese Maier research award of the Humboldt Foundation for collaborative research and an Honorary Professor of the Distant Worlds… Read more

A leader in the field of Southeast Asian archaeology, Prof. Ian Carvel Glover (24 Apr. 1934, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England - 23 Apr. 2018, Catania, Sicily) was a pioneer archaelogist and educator.He joined the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, London, and retired in 1996 as Reader in the… Read more

Mike Carson is an Associate Professor of Archaeologyresearcher at the Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam at Mangilao, USA. Read more

Peter Stafford Bellwood (1943, Leicester, England) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. His areas of specialization include the prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific from archaeological,… Read more

Dr. Nguyen Kim Dung is currently Head of the Department of Ecology-Evolutionary Biology at Ho Chi Minh City University of Sciences, Vietnam. Previously, she led various research projects at the Viet Nam Institute of Archaeology in Hanoi. Read more

As an archaeological scientist and conservator Dr Anna Bennett is particularly interested in the services which can be offered to art specialists in caring for their valuable collections. An important facet of this work involves authenticities and the management of collections. She has been called… Read more

Dr. Bijan Raj Chatterji (1904, Calcutta (Kolkhata), India - 1987) was an Indian scholar pioneer in the studies of Southeast Asian cultures.After starting his higher education cursus in Punjab, he furthered his research in London and Paris, where he met leading Sanskritists and Khmerologists such as… Read more

Nicolas Weber is a researcher in Southeast Asian studies, specializing in Cham ancient and modern history. With a PhD in Asia-Pacific Studies from Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales (INALCO, France), he was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies,… Read more

Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan. 1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, geographer, linguist, Islamologist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia.At age 18 in 1882, Ferrand joined the Lyon merchant house of… Read more

Kitagawa Takako 北川香子 is a Japanese researcher who studied at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Tokyo. In 2005, she published her research 'Kampot of the Belle Époque: From the Outlet of Cambodia to a Colonial Resort'. With a special interest in Cambodian pre-modern… Read more

Sakurai Yumio 桜井由躬雄 (31 Jan. 1945, Tokyo - 17 Dec. 2012) was an Japanese historian who specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, in particular its links with Japan. With doctorates from the University of Tokyo and (honorary) University of Vietnam, he authored several books and essays on early… Read more

Dr. James Campbell was a British naval surgeon, a naturalist and a geographer based in Bangkok in the 1850s-1870 where, as the 'physician to the British Legation', he treated the Queen of Siam and the small community of Western expatriates. According to Anna Leonowens, he attempted to save the life… Read more