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

Self-taught ethnologist, poet, archaeologist, botanist, geographer and cartographer, sociologist, linguist Jean Boulbet (2 Jan. 1926, Sainte-Colombe-sur-l'Hers, France - 11 Feb. 2007, Phuket, Thaïland), had extensively explored since 1946 the Cau Maa' ("hill people" ethnic minority in Vietnam)… Read more

Dr. Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826, Bremen, Germany – 2 Feb. 1905, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago), an avid traveler and ethnographer, considered as one of the founders of modern anthropology and ethnology as scientific disciplines (as well as 'the father of German ethnology'),… Read more

Hippolyte Vattemare (?- 1882) was a French literary translator who translated a great number of books and essays from the English language, mostly related to discovery travels and geography.He translated -- or "adapted", since translation was then often considered as an exercise in condensing the… Read more

Art historian Joachim K. Bautze has taught at the universities of Heidelberg, Tokyo and Berlin. He has guest-curated exhibitions of Indian art in Europe and the USA, and contributed several studies on Indian miniature paintings. Dr. Bautze has written, contributed to, or edited, a number of books,… Read more

Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards: 5 Nov. 1831, Ahmednagar, India (1) – 19 Jan. 1915, Montreal, Canada) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. She attained worldwide fame when she published her account of her years (1862-1867)… Read more

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 1901 and 1904, 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