As an anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor Helaine Silverman (3 Nov 1952) focuses on the cultural politics of the production and consumption of heritage sites. Her research addresses tourism, economic development, local and national imaginaries, performances of identity and regimes of… Read more

A Doctor in geology, Vittorio Roveda (1929, Milano, Italy -2024, Bangkok, Thailand), Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, London) until 2007, was one of the world's pre-eminent scholars on Khmer civilization.Dr. Roveda has been teaching Asian Art in Singapore from… Read more

Kim Chhay (1 Sept 1998, Phnom Penh) moved to Siem Reap in 2017, a step that encouraged him to further his taste (and skills) for photography. While he has traveled around Southeast Asia -- with Penang, Malaysia, as one of his favorite spots --, Kim remains focused on Cambodia's traditions and… Read more

Christophe Loviny (1960) is a French writer and photographer who co-founded the Angkor Photo Festival in 2005, and then the Yangon Photo Festival in 2008. Under his direction, the YPF has become one of the most popular photo events in South-east Asia. A jury member of the Tokyo International Foto… Read more

Dr. MAK Phoeun ម៉ក់ ភឺន (b. 1940) is a Cambodian historian who publishedd numerous articles and books on pre-colonial Cambodia, in particular in the 16th-18th centuries, and a reference study on the Khmer Royal Chronicles.From 1975 on, he conducted with Cambodian scholar Khin Sok studies,… Read more

A professor of linguistics at California State University (Chico, CA), Graham Thurgood specializes in tonogenesis, historical linguistics, language contact, and second language acquisition. He has reconstructed Chamic (Austronesian), Hlai languages (Kra-Dai and Kam-Sui), and parts of Tibeto-Burman… Read more

Anthony Reid (19 June 1939, Wellington, NZ) is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia (Sumatra, Aceh...) and Malaysia (Chinese diaspora...). Professor Reid was a member of Australian National University (ANU) former Department of Pacific & Asian History from… Read more

Historian, archaeologist and orientalist, expert in poliorcetics (the art of leading and resisting military sieges) and polemology, Victor Lluís Pérez Garcia teaches at Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).He has studied fortifications and walled cities from the Roman Empire, in Tibet and… Read more

Initially a mason and building engineer in Southwest France like his father, Pascal Royère (6 July 1965 - 5 Feb. 2014, Villeneuve-lès-Boulloc) graduated the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture in Nantes in 1994 with a restoration project dedicated to the Southern Kleang at Angkor Thom. In… Read more

Jean Despujols (19 March 1886, Salles en Gironde, France - 1965, Shreveport, USA) was a French -- later naturalized American in 1945 -- painter who extensively pictured Angkor and Indochina through his artwork. A pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux who won the Prix de Rome… Read more

Marie-Etienne-Auguste Barth (22 March 1834, Strasbourg - 15 Apr 1916, Audierne, France) was a secondary school teacher in his native Alsace (in Bouxwiller) when he started to study ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit by himself. Within less than two decades, the self-taught Indianist became one… Read more

French civil engineer, indefatigable traveler and compulsive big-game hunter Marie Auguste Edgar Boulangier (1850-1899) visited Cambodia in 1880-1881, his first official mission for which he was granted logistical support by King Norodom. This 'mineralogical-hydrological' exploration was supposed… Read more

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

A visiting Researcher at the Asian Culture Research Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo, Nhim Sotheavin specializes in Cambodian history. Graduated from the Cambodian Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RUFA) in 1996, he worked he worked as an archaeological researcher at the Sophia University Angkor… Read more

A member of the Faculty of Architecture at Khon Kaen University, Thailand, Sitta Kongsasana is assistant-professeur and has worked on several sites in Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. Read more

A member of the program Changing The Story, Keo Duong is a lecturer at the History Department of Phnom Penh Royal University. Specialized in the history of the Khmer Rouge and Democratic Kampuchea, he has contributed to documentation at Bophana audio-visual resource center and published several… Read more

An associate professor at University of Hawaii Manoa, Paul A. Lavy received his BA in cultural anthropology and his MA and PhD in South and Southeast Asian art history. He taught ancient art history at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and Asian and Islamic art history at Pennsylvania State… Read more

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

Senior lecturer in musicology at the Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University in Växjö (Sweden), Martin Knust studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Greifswald, Berlin and Dresden. Since 2007, he has held appointments and lectureships at the E.-M.-Arndt-University in Greifswald,… Read more

A specialist in modern history, Grégory Mikaelian (1976-) is a CNRS researcher since 2008. He made his PhD thesis at Paris IV Sorbonne into a seminal book, La Royauté d’Oudong, Réforme des institutions et crise du pouvoir dans le royaume khmer du XVIIeme siècle, Paris, 2009) and published many… Read more