Marie-Joseph Guesdon (20 Jan. 1852, Palluau, Vendée, France - 31 Oct. 1939, Paris), known as Père (Father) Guesdon, was a French Catholic priest (´diacre´, deacon, ordained 1874) who was active in Cambodia as a photographer, linguist geographer and researcher in 1874-1881, then in 1883-1888 (after… Read more

Thirachaya Maneenetr Director of Center for Asia-Pacific Tourism Research, Faculty of Management Science, Khon Kaen University Email: Read more

A visual artist based in Siem Reap, Bruno Lévy Truffert (1962, Paris) graduated from ESRA (Audiovisual Production College) and INALCO (Contemporary Khmer and Siamese Departments) before developing a career in multimedia content creation.Focusing on monumental reconstruction and symbolic… Read more

After graduating from UAH (Universidad de Alcala, UAH, Spain) and researching with the Far East Asian Studies Department at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Veronica Walker Vadillo (Ph. D. in Maritime Archaeology, 2017, University of Oxford, England, with her thesis on the fluvial cultural… Read more

Gyles Iannone is an anthropologist and a Fellow Researcher with Trent University Archaelogical Research Centre (Canada).He specializes in Early State Formations and Urbanism (especially in the tropics), Settlement Archaeology, Resilience Theory, The Archaeology of Climate Change, Natural Disasters,… Read more

Pyiet Phyo Kyaw is a Professor of Archaelogy at University of Mandalay, Mandaly, Myanmar. He has conducted numerous researches on the Bagan site and the Bronze Age in Burma. Read more

A Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris), Michel Rethy Antelme មីស្ហែល ឫទ្ធី អង់តែល្ម (b. 1966, Troyes, France) is a linguist, educator, translator and historian specialized in Ancient and Modern Khmer.He has taught translation and linguistics in… Read more

With a BA degree in archaeology (2002), Tep Sokha has studied Ceramics Conservation and Restoration with Prof. Bonnie Baskin, American Ceramics Conservator, since late 2002 until 2007. In 2014, he worked on several archaelogical sites with Prof. Nancy Beavan. As an independent scholar, he has… Read more

William F. Romain (Ph.D. (University of Leicester, 2004) is an archaeologist specializing in archaeoastronomy and ancient religions. He is a Research Associate with the Indiana University, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, The Explorers Club, and… Read more

Historian and archaeologist Eric Bourdonneau (1973, Le Mans, France) has been working with EFEO in Cambodia since 1997.After defending his PhD thesis Indianisation et formation de l'État en Asie du Sud-Est: retour sur trente ans d'historiographie. Matériaux pour l'étude du Cambodge ancien in 2005… Read more

Born to Cambodian refugees in Long Beach, California, Prumsodun Ok started studying Khmer classical dance with the Sophiline Arts Ensemble. His interdisciplinary performances contemplating the “avant-garde in antiquity” have been presented at the Department of Performing Arts (Cambodia), Bangkok… Read more

Architect and engineer Jacques Dumarçay (26 June 1926, Toul, France - 22 Nov 2020, Toul) was one of the major actors in the restoration of important monuments, in the Angkor area (Baphuon, Roluos, Pre Rup), in Laos (Wat Phu) and also in Indonesia, in particular Borobudur. Author of several… Read more

A doctor in archaeology from University of Sydney under the supervision of Pr. Roland Fletcher, academic researcher Bob Hudson has been studying early civilizations and urban systems in Myanmar (Burma), in particular the Bagan temple complex (some 3,400 buildings recensed so far) and the ancient… Read more

Wesley Clarke is an American registered professional field archaeologist with some forty-five years experience, who conducted his first Southeast Asian research in 1974 in northern Thailand for an undergraduate thesis in anthropology at Prescott College (Arizona). Since 2003, he has been involved… Read more

Sarah Klassen is the co-director of the Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative (CALI), as well as the lead investigator of the Koh Ker Archaeological Project (KKAP) and the Beyond the Greater Angkor Region Project (BGAR). In recent years, imagery from two lidar acquisitions were used to map… Read more

Pierre Marie Alexis Dieulefils (21 Jan. 1862 - 19 Nov. 1937, Malestroit (Morbihan), France) extensively photographed Angkor and Cambodian scenes at the turn of the 20th century. Arrived in Tonkin as a soldier in 1885, he established his studio in Hanoi (61 rue Paul Bert) in 1888, with his wife,… Read more

Dr. Thomas 'Tom' Chandler is the Director of the Department of Human Centred Computer at Monash University, Australia and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of IT. His research has focused upon the design and development of immersive simulations of the past, particularly the medieval Cambodian… Read more

Sok Keo Sovannara is an archaeologist and independent researcher who has taken part in several research missions with the Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Japan) and the Apsara National Authority. Specializing in ancient ceramics and kiln sites, Keo Sovannara was also involved in… Read more

Lecturer in religious studies at Stanford University with a PhD in Buddhist - Studies (University of California-Berkeley), Trent Walker is currently Director of Preservation and Lead Scholar of the Khmer Manuscript Heritage Project, Buddhist Digital Resource Center, aimed at digitizing over 10,000… Read more

Vern Sophorn (5 Jul. 1975) is a researcher in Khmer studies and the Curator of Angkor National Museum, Siem Reap, since 2010. A graduate in Archaeology from RUFA in 2000, he completed his postgraduate degree in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology at Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India.… Read more