Mă Duānlín (simplified Chinese: 马端临, traditional 馬端臨, Ma Tuan-Lin in French transliteration) (c. 1245, Leping, Jiangxi– c.1322) was a Chinese historian and encyclopaedist who completed between 1273 and 1317, during the Yuan Dynasty, the comprehensive Chinese encyclopedia Wenxian Tongkao in 348… Read more

Dr. Cristina Cobo Castillo is a University College of London (UCL) researcher working on archaeobotanical analyses (macro-remains) from Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bali, Philippines, Bangladesh), with an emphasis on the Iron/Metal Age period.She has worked on Angkor… Read more

William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651, East Coker (England) - March 1715, London) was an English explorer, buccaneer, privateer, navigator, and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first sailor to circumnavigate the world three times.… Read more

Marco R. Deyasi is an art historian and faculty member of the Department of Art History, Concordia University (Canada), with his research focusing on the impact of Vietnamese and Cambodian art and culture in France.His doctoral dissertation at Duke University (USA) was titled “French Visual Culture… Read more

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781, offshore Jamaica – 5 July 1826, London) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies (1811–1816), and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen (1818–1824), known as the founder of modern Singapore and the Straits… Read more

Nadine Dalsheimer (van der Tol) is a specialist in Khmer art history, having extensively studied the art collections of the Angkor Conservation (for her doctoral thesis in 1997, under the direction of Bruno Dagens, and for the related book Le corps des dieux) and of the National Museum of Cambodia… Read more

Michel Jacq-Hergoual'ch (1943, Brittany, France - 2014) was an historian and geographer who specialized in Indian and Indianized States of Southeast Asia studies, in particular the Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula, as well as ancient and modern history of Siam, and history of Art. After… Read more

Jacques Gaucher (1949, Nantes) is an architect-urbanist who heads the program of urban archaeology at Angkor Thom started in 1994.Part of archaeological missions at Ras-Ibn-Hani, Syria (1980-1982), Anuradhapura, Sri-Lanka (1984-1986), and field research missions in Tamil Nadu, India (1985-1989),… Read more

Henri Cordier (8 August 1849, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) – 16 March 1925, Paris) was a French linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, editor and Orientalist who largely contributed to the development of French Sinology (even if he knew very little of the Chinese language) and Asian… Read more

Dr. Uday Dokras is a specialist in Human Resources who has authored several popularization and research books on Indian and Southeast Asia civilizations.A gradutate of Nagpur University, India, with a PhD from Stockhom University, Sweden, Uday Dokras has worked as consultant in California,… Read more

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