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

The son of noted French sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875), 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… Read more

Head Curator of Musée national des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (MNAAG, Paris), Pierre Baptiste is in charge of Southeast Asian arts at the museum since 1996. An art historian, Pirerre Baptiste has taught at École du Louvre (Paris) and at the RUFA Faculty of Archaeology (Phnom Penh). He also supervised… 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

A doctor in musicology and ethnomusicology, Jarernchai Chonpairot teaches at the College of Music, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, Maha Sarakham, Thailand. In 2019, Dr. Jarernchai Chonpairot gave the opening speech to the 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM). Among many… Read more

H.E. Phoeurng Sackona ភឿង សកុណា (8 Oct. 1959), Cambodia's Minister of Culture and Fine Arts since 2013, has launched a vast program for the preservation of cultural heritage.At an early age, Dr. Sackona lost her parents and three siblings during the Khmer Rouge regime. Resuming her studies in the… Read more

Dr. Thanik Lertcharnrit (ดร. ธนิก เลิศชาญฤทธ์) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, with research interests including cultural research management, prehistory and early history in Southeast Asia, particularly in Thailand. Formerly… Read more

The Phnom Penh Post is a daily English-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded in 1992 by publisher Michael Hayes and Kathleen O'Keefe, it is Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper, and the only international-award-winning press outlet in the Kingdom. Read more

Dr. Wannasarn Noonsuk is currently teaching at the Department of Art of Design at University of California, Fresno. After receiving his doctorate in art history and archaeology from Cornell University in 2012, he also taught at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, where he is… Read more

Michel Lorrillard (1966, Boulay, France) received his doctorate from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He joined the EFEO in 1997 and was appointed director of its Chiang Mai (1999-2000) and Vientiane (2000-2011) centers. Between 2001 and 2009, he conducted systematic surveys across the… Read more

Dr. Brigitte Borell-Seidel is a independent researcher associated with the Institute for Classical and Byzantine Archeology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, who lived several years in Southeast Asia. She has extensively studied glassware and artefacts from Ancient China and Southeast Asia, and… Read more

Capt. Boonyarit Chaisuwan is the Director of the Underwater Archaeology Division, Royal Thai Fine Arts Department. A graduate in archaeology from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, he first worked as a curator at the History and Military Museum, Thailand Ministry of Defense, before being transferred to… Read more

Khin Sok (ឃឹន សុខ) (1942, Kandal Province - 10 Oct. 2011, Paris) was a Cambodian historian, linguist, literature and arts scholar. A member of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, his publications contributed to the scientific interpretation of historical sources, literature and the systemic development… Read more

A senior researcher with CNRS (France), Dr Bérénice Bellina-Pryce has directed since 2005 the Thai-French Archaeological Mission in Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula, excavating and surveying in the Chumphon and Ranong provinces.Her research focuses on exchange and cultural transfer processes around the… Read more

Greg Mo is a photographer and videographer (an "image maker", as he likes to define himself) based in Asia. He has covered Sri Lanka, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, which inspired him several photographic books, including Ride in Cambodia and Angkor Temples. Greg Mo website. Read more

Clifford James Geertz (23 Aug. 1926 – 30 Oct. 2006) was an American anthropologist specializing in 'symbolic anthropology'. He was until his death professor emeritus at Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study.A master in 'thick description' (finding the deepest cultural and symbolical… Read more

Heng Piphal is a Cambodian archaeologist, currently a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. After receiving his degree in archaeology from the Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts in 2002, and a MA and PhD degree in Anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in… Read more

The French School of the Far East (École française d'Extrême-Orient, abbreviated EFEO) was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi, in what was then French Indochina. After the independence of Vietnam, its headquarters were transferred to Phnom Penh in 1957, and to Paris in 1975. Its main fields… Read more

Mimi Palgen-Maisonneuve (1918-1995) was a photographer and a journalist with Radio-Cambodge, active in Cambodia during the decades 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Married to Jacques Palgen, who was a professor of geodesy and photogrammetry, and a scientific consultant with the United Nations, Mimi… Read more

May 4, 1950 — August 27, 2019 San FranciscoStephen O. Murray, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based sociologist, anthropologist, and independent scholar, died August 27, 2019 from an aggressive lymphoma. He was born and raised in Minnesota. Steve's publications include studies in sociolinguistics, the… Read more