Bindu S. Shankar (13 July 1965, Madras, India) is a Bharata Natyam dancer and researcher from Chennai with a Ph.D in Art History from the Ohio State University, USA. She pursued her dissertation research on dance imagery in South Indian temples and studied the relationship between the temple… Read more

Denman Waldo Ross (1853–1935) was an American painter, art collector, and scholar of art history who was a tenant of the "pure design" theory. A professor of art at Harvard University and a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he gathered a huge private collection of Asian Art. Prof. Marie… Read more

Prum Sisaphantha ព្រំ សុីសាផាន្ធា (3 June 1956, Phnom Penh) is a language teacher and historian of Khmer classical dance who, after studying in Singapore and Russia, was a trainee and researcher with the Khmer Classical Ballet from 1973-1975 before being forced into agricultural labor in Battambang… Read more

Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan Leena is an archaeologist, a professor and director at the Center for Archaeological Studies, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, specializing in the field of art history, culture and archaeology of South and Southeast Asia. With a MA in Islamic Art & Archaeology… Read more

Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897, Posen-Wilda (then in Germany, now Poznan, Poland) – 31 July 1985, Wetzlar, Germany) was an avant-garde photographer, political activist, and avid traveler who beautifully captured Khmer temples in the 1960s before settling for a while in Tibet in her ongoing… Read more

Translator of major works on Angkor and Cambodia from French into English, author of numerous books on the Siamese civilization. Representative of the British Council in South East Asia for many years. Read more

A USA-based Vietnamese blogger, independent researcher and gifted polymath, Tao Babe likes to share online astonishingly well-documented historic and metaphysical essays, wise considerations on her status of citizen of the world with a strong sense of identity, and an ongoing questioning of… Read more

Peter Harris is a New-Zealand independent researcher and philanthropist who has been visiting and researching Angkor since the 1960s, and has published his own translation of Zhou Daguan's travelogue to Zhenla (Chenla).With a PhD in Asian history from Monash University, an M Phil in international… Read more

Dr. Dawn F. Rooney is an art historian and independent scholar specialising in Southeast Asia. She is the author of nine books and numerous articles on Asian art, including Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (1994), Angkor Observed (2001) and The Beauty of Fired Clay: Ceramics of Cambodia,… Read more

Martin Hürlimann (12 November 1897, Zürich, Switzerland - 4 March 1984, Zürich), was a Swiss publisher, musicologits and self-taught photographer who visited extensively Asia in the 1920s and 1930s, including Cambodia.In 1929, he founded the magazine Atlantis in Berlin, specializing in countries,… Read more

Clovis Thorel (28 Apr. 1833, Vers-Hébécourt, France - 11 Sept. 1911, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, France) was a botanist, physician and explorer who joined Cpt Doudart de Lagree's Commission d'Exploration du Mekong in 1866-1868, and authored the ethnographic and botanical parts of its 1873 published… Read more

French archeologist, Indianist, philologist and researcher Louis Finot (1864, Bar sur Aube -1935, Toulon, France) was named in 1898 director of the archaeological mission in Indochina, which would become two years later the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). He remained its director until… Read more

Shao-yun Yang (b. Singapore) is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Denison University, USA, with his research including ethnocultural identities, foreign relations, and cross-cultural interactions in medieval or "Middle Period" China (broadly defined as 200-1600 CE). With a B.A. and… Read more

Philologist, self-taught photographer and naturalist Henri Alexandre Mouhot (15 May 1826, Montbeliard, France -10 Nov. 1861, Naphan, Laos) started exploring South East Asia in 1857 with the support of the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London. French authorities never… Read more

A scholar in Hindu studies, Sanskrit scriptures and Iconographic History, Adalbert Gail has published several studies on Hindu and Buddhist mythology, South Asian and Khmer arts. Professor emeritus Dr. Gail held the chair on History of Indian Art at Freie Universität Berlin until his retirement in… Read more

René Gaston Georges Maspero (21 August 1872 – 21 September 1942) was a French sinologist and a civil officer with the French Protectorate in Cambodia. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and half-brother of sinologist Henri Maspero. A colonial governor of French Indochina, he was… Read more

Charles Duroiselle (1871-1951) was a French-born Burmese historian and archaeologist, noted Pali scholar and epigrapher, who published monographs on Mandalay Palace and other related Burmese subjects. Throughout his career, he excavated over 120 monuments around Burma (now Myanmar).A member of the… Read more

The French School of the Far East (École française d'Extrême-Orient, abbreviated EFEO) was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi, in what was then French Indochina. After the independence of Vietnam, its headquarters were transferred to Phnom Penh in 1957, and to Paris in 1975. Its main fields… Read more

Born to Cambodian refugees in Long Beach, California, Prumsodun Ok started studying Khmer classical dance with the Sophiline Arts Ensemble. His interdisciplinary performances contemplating the “avant-garde in antiquity” have been presented at the Department of Performing Arts (Cambodia), Bangkok… Read more

Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky (князь Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский, 26 Aug. 1861, Orianenbaum, Imperial Russia – 26 November 1921, Detskoe Selo) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nikolay II and accompanied him when we as Tsarevich… Read more