Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung (b. 1959) is a researcher with the Department of Archaeology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam, specializing in Champa history and archaeology.Amongst her recent publications: “Cổ Luỹ - Phú Thọ trong bối cảnh khảo cổ học… Read more

A Professor at the South and Southeast Asia Studies Departmen, University of California at Berkeley (USA), a writer and translator, Penny Edwards specializes in history of literature and Buddhist studies. In 2022-2023, she was granted a sabbatical to work on Ephemeral Angkor, a cinematic and… Read more

Deane H. Dickason (23 June 1898, Granada, Colorado, USA - 12 Nov 1953, Hong Kong, China) was a movie producer, director and actor, known for Castilian Memories: Manila (1934), the hugely controversial Virgins of Bali (1932), In Maori Land (1936) and Down Singapore Way (1946).Starring Balinese… Read more

Albert Tissandier (1839, Paris – 5 Sept 1906, Jurançon, France) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist who founded with brother Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) [1] the popular science magazine La Nature in 1873, the two being intrepid balloonists and demonstrating… Read more

HH Prince Sisowath Ravivaddhana Monipong (15 Feb. 1970, Phnom Penh) is a researcher in history and culture of Southeast Asia, an author of  books and articles on the social and traditional structure of the Cambodian society and the genealogy of the Khmer Royal Family, an artistic consultant for… Read more

A movement artist based in Singapore, Chloe Calderon Chotrani (1992, Manila) is a dance theorician and practicioner. Holding a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Arts from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) and a BA in Arts Management, she has trained and performed with Romançon Dance… Read more

H.W. Ponder (1883, Buckinghamshire UK - 1967, Brisbane Australia) was a reputed travel writer who wrote extensively on Cambodia, Java and the South Pacific. First published in 1936, her book about Angkor, Cambodian Glory, was almost as successful as the one by her American counterpart Helen… 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

Sakurai Yumio 桜井由躬雄 (31 Jan. 1945, Tokyo - 17 Dec. 2012) was an Japanese historian who specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, in particular its links with Japan. With doctorates from the University of Tokyo and (honorary) University of Vietnam, he authored several books and essays on early… Read more

Prof. Radha Krishna Chaudhary [sometimes Choudhary] (15 Feb 1924 – 15 March 1985) was an Indian historian and writer, specializing in historical and archaeological studies on Bihar as well as on Maithili literature. A professor at Ganesh Dutt College, Begusarai, Bihar, he was also a member of the… Read more

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Professor in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry at Monash University and Emeritus Professor at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Maurice Eisenbruch has extensively studied the Khmer Rouge regime from a psychological angle, as "a case of autogenocide". Read more

Mathematician and civil engineer Terry Lustig is an independent scholar, affiliated to the Greater Angkor Project and the University of Sydney (Department of Archeology). Read more

Troy Dean Harris, ascetic-arts researcher and curator, is the founder of the Sritantra Project, under which name he has published several studies. He resides between Malabar and the Malaya peninsula. His primary research interests combine the comparative distribution and modification of ancient… Read more

William J. Gedney (4 Apr 1915, Orchards, WA - 14 Nov 1999, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) was a linguist specialized in Southeast Asian languages, studying and documenting Thai and twenty-two more idioms. in 1947, he moved to Thailand and worked with some of the most important scholars in Thai literature and… Read more

Initially a mason and building engineer in Southwest France like his father, Pascal Royère (6 July 1965 - 5 Feb. 2014, Villeneuve-lès-Boulloc) graduated the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture in Nantes in 1994 with a restoration project dedicated to the Southern Kleang at Angkor Thom. In… Read more

In 1886, a N.V. Sultanov published the first major scientific research on Khmer Art in Russian, in the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Arts (Xмерское искусство). Soviet and Russian historians have never identified the author so far. Our guesswork is that he might have been N.V. Sultanov, the… 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

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

Thibodi Buakamsri ธิบดี บัวคำศรี is a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Arts, Department of History. He has been studying the modern history of Cambodia, and the somewhat tense relations between Thailand and Cambodia when dealing with cultural heritage, cultural appropriation and the… Read more