Christophe Gargiulo (b. 19 Sep 1962, New Caledonia) is a film director, photographer and writer based in Cambodia since 2005, who has worked on and produced numerous films, TV programs and documentaries on cultural and ecological issues for the NGO Agir pour le Cambodge, WorldFish and the European… Read more

Pitchaya Soomjinda พิชญา โสมจินดา is Associate Professor of Art History, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. A former student of Achan Piriya Krairiksh-- a pioneer in Thai arts studies -- at Thammasat University, he focuses on Khmer art and iconography, and on the premodern and transitional periods of… Read more

T. A. Gopinatha Rao கோபிநாத ராவ் (1872-1919) was an Indian archaeologist and (Tamil and Sanskrit) epigraphist who was appointed the first Superintendent of the Travancore Archaeology Department in 1908, and authored the monumental Elements of Hindu Iconography (Law Printing House, Madras, 4 vols,… Read more

Robert Chauvelot (  was a French colonial administrator, novelist and travel writer who visited Cambodia and Angkor around 1924, part of an extended trip across the Far East.A member of the Conseil supérieur des Colonies (Grand Council of the Colonies), a professor at Paris College des sciences… Read more

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Dr. Brigitte Borell-Seidel is a independent researcher associated with the Institute for Classical and Byzantine Archeology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, who lived several years in Southeast Asia. She has extensively studied glassware and artefacts from Ancient China and Southeast Asia, and… Read more

Charya Burt is a master dancer; choreographer, vocalist and teacher of Classical Cambodian Dance, the founding artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, a dance ensemble based in San Francisco North Bay, California, USA.Charya Burt's training began shortly after the Khmer Rouge genocide… Read more

John Burgess (1951, North Carolina, USA) first visited Cambodia in 1969, in his teen years. The son of a diplomatic family, he lived in India, Indonesia, and Thailand as a child. A former Washington Post foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, he is the author of Stories in Stones: The Sdok Kok… Read more

Charles Mouhot (1828 - 1904) was a younger brother of Henri Alexandre Mouhot, the famous French explorer who gave a vivid description of Angkor in 1859. Just a year after Henri's death in Laos in 1861, Charles Mouhot completed the English translation of his brother's travelogue, Travels in the… Read more

An indianist and renowned researcher in Indian and Khmer arts, Mireille Bénisti (1909-1993) completed her studies at École du Louvre under the guidance of Philippe Stern. She also studied Sanskrit and History of Art at EHESS and College de France. Joining the Centre national de la recherche… Read more

Hubert de Mestier du Bourg (25 Nov 1945, Paris) is an independent researcher and a consultant for various organizations in Japan.After studying at McGill University, Montreal, Institute of Comparative Law in Paris, National School of Oriental Languages (INALCO), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes… Read more

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

Joseph Gervais alias Alfred Raquez (1 June 1864 (?), Dunkerque - 9 Jan. 1907, Marseille, France) was a prolific writer, photographer, traveler and editor who vividly described China, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Annam, and Java at the turn of the century.Declared bankrupt in March 1898 after some… Read more

French-Khmer poetess and novelist Makhali-Phal (Nelly-Pierrette Guesde: 21 Sep. 1898, Phnom Penh - 15 Nov. 1965, Pau, France) was brought to France in 1906 with the Cambodian Royal Court during the official visit to Exposition Universelle de Marseille, yet wrote almost exclusively about the… Read more

Colleena Shakti is a sacred dance performer based in Rajasthan (India) and Greece.As a teacher, founder of the Shakti School Dance, and as a performer wishing to bring together yoga practice and entertaining folk or court dance, Colleena has been a major actor on the Rajasthan cultural scene,… Read more

Pierre Grison (?-Dec. 1985) was a freelance researcher and sinologist who spent seven years in the Far East after World War II, studying countries, men, civilisations and doctrines, and publishing contributions on topics as diverse as Buddhist art, Chinese secret societies, the Caodai sect in… Read more

Ingrid Muan (1964, Virginia, USA - 30 Jan. 2005, Phnom Penh) was a Doctor in Art History, an art teacher, and a passionate researcher on Cambodian traditional and modern arts since 1994, when she moved to Cambodia. Her PhD dissertation is “Citing Angkor: The “Cambodian Arts” in the Age of… Read more

Thun Theara (Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia) is an historian researching the cultural and political history of mainland Southeast Asia. After graduating from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) in 2008, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to pursue an M.A. in Southeast… Read more

Trương Vĩnh Ký (張永記), also known as Pétrus Ky or Jean-Baptiste Pétrus, (6 Dec 1837, Vĩnh Long Province - 1 Sept 1898, Saigon, Vietnam) was a Vietnamese linguist, teacher and translator whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe. After his father's death… Read more

Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul is a cultural and intellectual historian of early South Asia, and a Sanskritist. An Associate Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, she has also been the Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer in South Asian Studies at Yale… Read more