Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (9 April 1879, London – 5 Jan. 1972, Exmouth) was a Irish-British illustrious painter known for his portraits (including those of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and for his graceful depictions of Southeast Asian princesses and female dancers.Born into… Read more

Col. Jacob T. Child (19 Jan 1832, Philadelphia - 19 Oct 1905, Richmond, Missouri, USA) was an American diplomat and publicist.United States Minister Resident in Bangkok from 1884 to 1888, he later portrayed Siam and the Siamese court in his book The Pearl of Asia. He also served as US… Read more

Lindsay French is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island, USA. She graduated from Harvard University. Read more

Pelle Wijker is a PhD candidate in archaeology at Sorbonne Paris and CNRS, specializing in the comparative study of Khmer and Maya civilizations ('Urbanisme Khmer et Maya : analyse comparative des modèles de peuplement à l'aide d'ensemble de données Lidar'). Read more

Tain Gree (also U-Tain Wongsathit อุเทน วงศ์สถิตย์) is a researcher in Epigraphy, Philology, Historical Linguistics and History of Religion, lecturer at the Department of Oriental Languages and at the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Thailand.He specializes in the study of Indian… Read more

Lois Conner (b. 1951, New York City, USA) is an American photographer and professor of photography who has published several acclaimed books on China and Tibet, and has extensively traveled around Asia. Her work is permanently exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC, Lausanne (Switzerland) and… Read more

Prof. Kishor K. Basa is the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha. He was the Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India in 2019-20. He is also the Chairman of Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the… Read more

Taizo Ichinose 一ノ瀬 泰造 (1 Nov. 1947, Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan - 29 Nov. 1973, Siem Reap, Cambodia) was a Japanese war photographer killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers while heading to Angkor Wat from embattled Siem Reap city on November 29, 1973. Some pictures and press articles about Taizo are… Read more

Documentary and Fine Art Photographer. Read more

Khmer-American free-lance researcher, photographer and "independent spirit", Phalika Ngin has extensively studied the "Royal Triad" formed by King Jayavarman VII and his two successive wives, Queen Jayarajadevi and Queen Indradevi. Read more

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (1944, Basel) is a researcher and publisher, Emeritus Professor in Ethnology at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.A consultant for UNESCO in Bali, Sumatra and Cambodia, she has taught cultural property rights and cultural heritage management as guest lecturer at Columbia… 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

John Frederick Norman Lewis (28 June 1908, Forty Hill, UK – 22 July 2003, Saffron Walden, UK ) was a British novelist and travel writer who had served in the Intelligence Corps in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy during World War II, and whose travelogue in Indochina, A Dragon Apparent (1951) gives his… Read more

Christopher Pym (13 Jan 1929, Bristol, UK - 1 Dec 2001, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK) was a writer, a researcher on Cambodia's history and culture, and a local politician challenging the two-party system.A National Service officer during World War II, he was initially sent to Cambodia by… Read more

Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France -  28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Raoul Marc Jennar (6 July 1946, Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium) is a researcher and consultant in international relations who has advised the Cambodian government during the post Khmer-Rouge transition period (1989-1999), and again since 2016 as Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs… Read more

Cecyl Holliday (who signed her contributions to The Mid-Pacific Magazine "Mlle. Cecyl Holliday") was a French teacher at Maui High  -- the first English-speaking high-school in Honolulu, inaugurated in 1913 --, an interpreter and a trustee of the Pan-Pacific Union. In 1926, she was awarded in… Read more

Art historian Madeleine Giteau (1918, Nantes - 2005) was the Curator of Cambodia National Museum (then Musée Albert Sarrault) from 1956 until 1966. A member of École française d'Extrême Orient (EFEO) from 1956 until 1981, she taught Southeast Asian art and history at Sorbonne University until her… 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

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