Thomas Mark Shelby (b. 2 Oct. 1970, Fairfield, Alabama, USA) is a cultural resources specialist with a doctorate from the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.Specializing in the environmental and architectural issues in cultural sites preservation, he has studied the… Read more

Amina Ahmed Kar আমিনা আহমেদ কর (20 Feb 1930, Calcutta, British India -21 Jan 1994, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India) was a talented art historian and one of the first women abstract artists in India. The daughter of a famous dentist surgeon and Bengali politician, she was a precocious and brilliant… Read more

Tran Quoc Nam (1962, Phnom Penh) is a freelance researcher based in Saigon. His main interest is history and language in relation to exchanges between the Vietnamese and the Khmer cultural spheres. When his family was expelled from Cambodia in 1970 due to the 'Cap Duon' policy implemented by the… Read more

Walter G. Langlois (1925, USA - 9 Nov 2020, USA) was a professor of French and historian of modern French literature, his primary area of interest concerning French writer and Culture minister Andre Malraux, about whom he published four books and established and edited two scholarly reviews. After… Read more

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (1946, Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar)  – 14 Aug. 2021, Hawai'i, USA) was a Burmese American historian and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a specialist in early Southeast Asian and Burmese history.His parents - with brother John and sister… Read more

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Étienne François Aymonier (26 Feb 1844, Le Chatelard, France – 21 Jan 1929, Paris), French naval officer, colonial administrator, linguist and explorer, was the first scientist to extensively survey the ruins and inscriptions of the Khmer empire in today's Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern… Read more

Patmawan Buranamat (Bangkok, 1979) studied English and English Literature, graduating in South East Asian studies at Chulalongkorn University. In 2005, she attended the conference on "Contemporary Research in Pre-Angkorian Cambodia" held at the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) in Siem Reap. She is… Read more

Pierre Le Roux is a French ethnologist, professor at Université de Strasbourg, the editor of Jean Boulbet's autobiography (posthumous) third volume, De palmes et d'épines (2009), and a researcher on the lives and works of several ethnologists who have been active in Southeast Asia, including Jean… Read more

Louis de Carné (16 March 1842, Quimper, France - 28 Nov 1870, Plomelin, France)  was a French diplomat and explorer who took part in the Mission d'exploration du Mékong in 1865-6.In 1863, de Carné joined the Commercial Section of the French Foreign Ministry. According to his father, also… Read more

Associate Researcher with CNRS (France), Ludivine Provost-Roche specializes in historical research on the end of the Angkorian period. Her PhD dissertation in 2010 is titled 'Les derniers siècles de l'époque angkorienne au Cambodge (env. 1220-env. 1500)' (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle).An art… Read more

Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Jinah Kim received her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University (1998), and her M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in History of Art from University of California,… Read more

Xia Nai (夏鼐, 1910, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China – 19 June 1985) was an eminent Chinese archaeologist, celebrated on the international academic scene as a member of the British Academy (1974), the Swedish Royal Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities (1983), the U.S. Academy of Sciences… Read more

The Phnom Penh Post is a daily English-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded in 1992 by publisher Michael Hayes and Kathleen O'Keefe, it is Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper, and the only international-award-winning press outlet in the Kingdom. Read more

A former banker, the Director of the Sarasvati Research Center, and Chair of the Taksha center and Institute, Dr. Srinivasan Kalyanaraman has been researching for years the mighty Vedic River Sarasvati which, in its time, gave rise to an entire civilization and was lost without a trace. Studying… Read more

Henri Marchal (24 June 1876, Paris - 12 Apr. 1970, Siem Reap), director of the Archaeology Department at the École française d'Extrême-Orient, served as Chief Conservator of Angkor from 1916 -- after Jean Commaille was killed by looters -- to 1936, and then again after Second World War II, from… Read more

CAST:ING (Copper Alloy Sculpture Techniques and history: an International iNterdisciplinary Group) is a project run since 2015 by an international team of conservators, scientists, curators, art historians, historians, archaeologists, archaeometallurgists, and craftspeople, who are studying bronze… Read more

Raymond Cauchetier (10 Jan. 1920, Paris - 22 Feb. 2021, Paris) was a self-taught photographer whose work, intimately vinculated to Angkor and Asia, is recognized as one of the major testimonies on culture and arts in the 20th century. As a stillphotographer, he also make live for ever actors and… Read more

Prof. Fujioka Michio 藤岡通夫 (31 Jul. 1908, Tokyo - 19 Nov. 1988, Tokyo) was an eminent Japanese architect and art historian who studied the architecture of the Khmer temples. Author of a reference book on Japanese Castles, as well as essays on Japanese Residences and Gardens (恒成一訓写真), Castles and… Read more

A Professor at USC College of Arts and Sciences (California, USA), Norindr Panivong researches comparative literature, postcolonial theory, contemporary French studies, and French and Southeast Asian cinema. His published works include several essays on Southeast Asian representations in European… Read more