A doctor in Archaeology from Michigan University, Karen M. Mudar is an archaelogy researcher working with the US National Park Service. She has researched Ancient Thailand. Read more

Sishtri Dokras (19 Nov. 1993, Nagpur, India) is an architect who works on sustainable architecture with several projects, including IxDF (Interaction Design Fondation) and Auroville architecture labs.She has co-authored several research papers with Uday Vasant Dokras, including a Comparison Between… Read more

Kuoch Haksrea studied philosophy and archaelogy at SOAS (University of London), obtaining a MBA in 1976 with his thesis on the Southern Provinces of Cambodia in the Pre-Angkor era.In 1986, he co-authored with Orientaliste Judith Jacob a complete translation of the Reamker (Ramakerti), the Khmer… Read more

The Venerable Nyanatiloka (19 Feb. 1878, Wiesbaden, Germany – 28 May 1957, Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]), born as Anton Walther Florus Gueth, was one of the earliest Westerners in modern times to become a Bhikkhu, a fully ordained Buddhist monk. Known as Nyanatiloka Mahathera (a Sanskrit and Pali… Read more

Suzanne Karpelès (17 March 1890, Paris - 7 Nov. 1968, Pondicherry (Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Vellore), India) was an Indianist, ethnologist and philologist specialized in Khmer, Sanskrit and Pali languages, the first curator of the Phnom Penh Royal Library of Cambodia (nowadays National Library,… Read more

Andrée Karpelès [or Andrée Karpelès-Högman] (18 May 1885, Paris - 5 Sept. 1956, Cannes [buried in Grasse] was a painter, illustrator and writer who made Indian and Cambodian cultures and arts more accessible to the Western discerning public through her work.A daughter of Jules Karpelès, a… Read more

Père Charles-Émile Bouillevaux (1 Apr. 1823, Montier-en-Der, France - 6 Jan. 1913, Montier-en-Der) was a French missionary and explorer who visited Angkor in December 1850 but waited until 1878 to publish an extensive account of his visit, Ma visite aux ruines cambodgiennes en 1850 (Mémoires de la… Read more

Robert Dalet was an archaeologist, photographer and explorer who discovered numerous artefacts dating from the pre-Angkorean and classical periods across Cambodia in the 1930s and 1950s. Briefly mentioned as an EFEO 'correspondant bénévole' (unpaid correspondent) by Louis Malleret (and registered… Read more

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, known as Père (Abbot) Amiot or Amyot and as 錢德明 (Qian De-Ming) as a mandarin (1 Feb. 1718, Toulon, France - 9 Oct. 1793, Beijing) was a French Jesuit missionary during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and studied Chinese literature, astronomy, music, botany, geography,… Read more

James Fergusson (22 Jan. 1808, Ayr, Scotland - 9 Jan. 1886, London, Great Britain) was a Scottish businessman and planter in India, and a self-taught architect whose fascination with the "True [or Pure, or Natural] Style" in Indian arts led him to write his monumental History of Indian and Eastern… Read more

William Marsden (16 November 1754, Verval, County Wicklow – 6 October 1836, London) was an Irish orientalist, numismatist, and linguist who served as First Secretary to the Admiralty during years of conflict with France, and commented The Travels of Marco Polo (1818), with annotations that brought… Read more

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 Sep. 1788, Paris - 2 June 1832, Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, Seine-et-Marne [of cholera]), a pioneer in French sinological studies who held the first chair of Chinese studies at Collège de France in 1814, takes a significant place in Khmer studies as the first Western… Read more

Bruno Dagens (1935, Nimegue, The Netherlands) is a French archaeologist, art historian, Sanskritist, and a specialist of Angkor Wat. Professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 since 2003, he is Honorary Vice President of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies… Read more

Emeritus professor of Architecture (School of Creative Science and Engineering) at Waseda University (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa 中川 武 (b. 1944, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a researcher in comparative archaeological history and the Director of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor… Read more

So Sokuntheary is a Cambodian Doctor in Architecture specialized in Architectural Preservation.A graduate from Waseda University, she is actively developing in Cambodia the activities of the Shimoda Laboratory of Architectural Heritage, a World Heritage Program sponsored by the Graduate School of… Read more

Hiroki Hattori 服部博紀 is a graduate student at Waseda University, Tokyo. Read more

Shinichi Nishimoto, a professor at Nippon Institute of Technology, is an architect and archaeologist who worked extensively in Cambodia and Egypt.With a Master of Engineering at University of Tsukuba, he contributed to several studies on structural design and water management at the Angkor Thom and… Read more

Ellen Hsieh 謝艾倫 is an Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University, Institute of Anthropology (Taiwan) specialized in History of maritime trade and Southeast Asia.A research associate to the National Museum of the Philippines, her PhD dissertation considered Early Spanish Colonialism in… Read more

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

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