Kea, Sakphearoth Sakphearoth (1997, Siem Reap) has been extensively traveling across South East Asia and Cambodia since her childhood. After working in advertisement photography, she's developing her own photographic style and skills. Read more
Kravel, Pech Tum Pech Tum Kravel ពេជ្រ ទុំក្រវិល (1943, Kandal- 2015, Phnom Penh) was an actor, writer, and the director of the Dance Department at Royal University of Fine Arts. He is the author of more than 20 books and essays on Cambodian culture and art, in particular at theater and dance. Born Chhorn Tort (ឈន… Read more
Bertrand, Didier Researche at CERPP (Université Toulouse le Mirail) and IRSEA-CNRS (Marseille, France), Didier Bertrand has devoted three years of field work studying the practices of Cambodian mediums and kru (healers). An ethno-psychologist and a Doctor in Intercultural Psychology, Didier Bertrand has also… Read more
Soutif, Dominique After becoming a Doctor in Indian Studies at Université Paris III -- his thesis dealt with the Religious and Secular Organization of the Khmer Temples between the 7th and 13th centuries --, Dominique Soutif joined the EFEO Siem Reap Branch in 2009, which he supervised until 2019. An… Read more
Carpeaux, Charles The son of famous French sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles Carpeaux (25 Apr. 1875, Paris - 28 June 1904, Saigon) went to Angkor for two exploratory missions in 1900 and 1903, before passing away from dysentry and exhaustion. An artist himself, he entered the Musée du Trocadéro in… Read more
Allen, Jane Jane Allen is an historian, archaeologist and environmentalist specialized in Malaysia Peninsula. Her PhD. thesis (1988, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) was entitled Trade, Transportation, and Tributaries: Exchange, Agriculture, and Settlement Distribution in Early Historic-Period Kedah,… Read more
Nguyen, Kim Dung 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
Paranavitana, Senarath 26 December 1896 (1896-12-26) Metaramba, Galle, British Ceylon Occupation Archeologist and an Epigraphist Books Ceylon and Malaysia, SinhalayoSenarath Paranavitana, CBE (Sinhala:සෙනරත් පරණවිතාන) (26 December 1896 – 4 October 1972) was a pioneering archeologist and epigraphist of Sri Lanka. His… Read more
Moore, W. Robert William Robert Moore (15 Aug 1899, Butler, Michigan -22 March 1968, Washington, DC, USA) was a photographer and the chief of the foreign editorial staff at National Geographic during four decades. With a predilection for Asia, where he started to work in the early 1930s, he contributed to nearly… Read more
Bruguier, Bruno Archaeologist Bruno Bruguier (1952, Toulouse) is the author of the series Guides archéologiques du Cambodge (Archaeological Guidebooks of Cambodia), an exhaustive description of the archaelogical sites around the country in six volumes he wrote with his wife, Juliette Lacroix. His doctoral thesis… Read more
Carò, Federico Federico Carò is a researcher in archaeology and petrography at the Scientific Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York City, USA. In 2017, he published with M. Polkinghorne and J.G. Douglas ¨Carving at the Capital: A stone workshop at Hariharalaya, Angkor¨(Smithsonian… Read more
Demandt, Michele Michèle H.S. Demandt is a post-doctorate researcher at Jinan University (China), specializing in ancient regional trade archaeology. She obtained her PhD in Ancient History from Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2017. Read more
Ortman, Scott G. Scott G. Ortman is a researcher in historical anthropology at the Department of Anthropology and Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Santa Fe Institute, USA.His research focuses on the integration of theory and data from many fields to understand the long-term histories… Read more
Nguyen, Tu-Anh Thi NGUYỄN Thị Tú Anh (Tu-Anh Thi Nguyen) is a PhD candidate in History of Art, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City. She graduated from SOAS, University of London in 2017-19 with a Diploma and Master of Art degree in History of Art and… Read more
Viollis, Andrée Andrée Viollis (Andrée Jacquet or Andrée Théry, "Viollis" being a penname) (9 Dec 1870, Mées, France – 9 Aug 1950, Paris) was a prominent French journalist and writer, anti-fascist and feminist activist who fought against colonialism in Indochina in the 1930s.It is from her second husband, Henri… Read more
Kalman, Bela Béla T. Kalman (29 July 1921, Budapest, Hungary -- 26 June 2011, Boston, USA) was a renowned photographer and a mentor to many younger photographers who contributed to several illustrated books, including Indian Country: America’s Sacred Land (with texts by Tony Hillerman). With an inclination to… Read more
Chirapravati, Pattaratorn Pattaratorn Chirapravati is a Thai scholar, Professor of Asian Art History and Curatorial Studies and Program Vice Director of Asian Studies at California State University, USA. Ms. Chirapravati, who is the great-great-granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, has published numerous books… Read more
Aurousseau, Léonard Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (12 Jul. 1888, Cannes, France - 24 Jan. 1929, Yerres, France) was a French sinologist, historian and archaeologist who was the Director of École française d'extrême-orient (EFEO) from 1926 to 1929. After studying Chinese language in Paris, he served in Indochina as soldier… Read more
Bayle, Thierry Thierry Bayle (b. 27 Feb. 1959, Paris) is a French former journalist, a writer, teacher, and currently cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Thailand since 2020..In addition to various publications in French print and audio media (Libération, France Culture, Globe-Hebdo, Lire, Créations,… Read more
Mizerski, Jim Jim Mizerski (d. 2020) was an American independent researcher, writer and translator who resided in Cambodia in the years 2000s, where he undertook historical research and humanitarian work, in particular with Friends International. After working as a naval officer and an electrical engineer, Jim… Read more