François Martini (1895, Can Tho, Vietnam - 1965, France) was a major linguist versed in Khmer, Mon, Sanskrit and Pali languages. Born from Corsican and Cambodian parents, he was severely wounded in action during World War I. Under Sylvain Lévi's and André Martinet's guidance, he studied Sanskrit… 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

May Mayko Ebihara អបិហរៈ ម៉ែកុ មេយ (12 May 1934, Portland OR. - 23 Apr 2005) was an eminent anthropologist with a passion for Cambodia.During World War II, she and her family were sent with other Japanese Americans to an internment camp in Idaho. She received her bachelor’s degree from Reed College… Read more

Boreth Ly is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Born in Cambodia, he was educated in France and the United States. Dr. Ly has conducted field research and traveled extensively in Southeast Asia. At the University of California… Read more

Donald M. Stadtner (b. 1947) was for many years an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Austin, after receiving his Ph.D in Indian art at the University of California, Berkeley. He was first in Burma in 1979, followed by visits in the 1980's sponsored by the Smithsonian… Read more

A trustee of the Burma Studies Foundation (USA), Sylvia Fraser-Lu is the author of several art history books, including Burmese Lacquerware (1994), Splendor in Wood, The Buddhist Monasteries of Burma (2008), Tapestry Weaves of Southeast Asia and Indonesian Batik. Read more

Jan Jetso Boeles (1909, Leeuwarden - ?) was a Dutch independent researcher and photographer based in Thailand for many years. In 1976-1978, he photographed the Phimai temple and the Wat Sethupon in Bangkok. He directed the Siam Society Research Center, and was an honorary member of the Siam… Read more

Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915, Reading, UK – 5 December 2000, Ithaca, N.Y., USA) was a British academic, historian and author who did pioneering work on the ancient Malay kingdom of Srivijaya - following the exploratory studies by George Coedès - and Southeast Asia ancient history.Wolters was… Read more

Sulak Sivaraksa (Thai: สุลักษณ์ ศิวรักษ์) (27 March 1933, Siam) is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation". He initiated a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in… Read more

A leading expert in Thai, Burmese and Khmer Arts history, Hiram W. Woodward Jr., "Woody", (b. Baltimore, Md., USA) fostered one of the main Asian art collections worldwide when he was the The Walters Arts Museum, 1986-2003. Since his retirement in 2003, he is Curator Emeritus of Asian Art at… Read more

An archaeologist and archaeobotanist with University College of London (UCL), Dorian Fuller (b. San Francisco) has worked widely in archaeobotany and archaeological field in Africa, the Middle East and across Asia. He is actively engaged in fieldwork projects in many parts of India (since 1997),… Read more

A professor of history at Ball State University, Kenneth R. Hall is a specialist in pre-1500 South and Southeast Asian history and culture, comparative urbanization and wider Indian Ocean maritime networking. Among his numerous publications, these are particulary interesting for Angkorean… Read more

L.A. Sedov [Л.А. Седов] (4 Dec 1934, Moscow-15 Feb 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist and orientalist.After studying translation at Moscow Maurice Thorez Foreign Languages Institute (институт иностранных языков имени Мориса Тореза) and at the USSR Institute of Oriental Studies… 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

A close friend to French writer Pierre Loti, Émile Vedel (21 Aug 1858, Marseilles - 12 Fev 1937, Tahiti, French Polynesia) was a naval officer and a writer who traveled extensively through the Far East -- he adopted as his daughter the Taihitian princess Takau-Pomare -- and wrote one of the first… Read more

Assistant Professor and Director of the International Program at The Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Sunon Palakavong Na Ayudhya has largely contributed to Archeological Heritage Conservation studies and programs in Thailand. Read more

Researcher with Université Catholique de Lille (France), Centre d'histoire de Sciences-Po, Amaury Lorin holds a Doctorate in History from IEPP (Paris) and a grant from EFEO. He specializes in the history of colonialism, and has co-authored Nouvelle histoire des colonisations européennes (XIXe-XXe… Read more

Michael Vickery (April 1 1931, Billings, Montana, June 29 2017, Battambang, Cambodia) was an American historian and lecturer with a passion for Cambodia.In the preface to Cambodia: 1975-1982 (1984), he summarized his personal involvment with the country with the following:I first arrived in… Read more

Michael A. Schultze (1956) is a German journalist and ethno-reporter who has been covering Southeast Asia, and particularly Laos, since 1982.He is the author of one novel set in Laos and, in collaboration with Vanessa Leepert, of a guidebook about that country. Read more

Keiko Miura had worked in the Culture Unit of UNESCO Office in Cambodia from 1992 to 1998, with approximately 6-month interval working with UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trust project (JSA) for archaeological and anthropological work. After resigning UNESCO, she became engaged in a Ph. D research on the… Read more