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

Jean Despujols (19 March 1886, Salles en Gironde, France - 1965, Shreveport, USA) was a French -- later naturalized American in 1945 -- painter who extensively pictured Angkor and Indochina through his artwork. A pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux who won the Prix de Rome… Read more

Marie-Etienne-Auguste Barth (22 March 1834, Strasbourg - 15 Apr 1916, Audierne, France) was a secondary school teacher in his native Alsace (in Bouxwiller) when he started to study ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit by himself. Within less than two decades, the self-taught Indianist became one… Read more

French civil engineer, indefatigable traveler and compulsive big-game hunter Marie Auguste Edgar Boulangier (1850-1899) visited Cambodia in 1880-1881, his first official mission for which he was granted logistical support by King Norodom. This 'mineralogical-hydrological' exploration was supposed… Read more

26 December 1896 (1896-12-26) Metaramba, Galle, British Ceylon Occupation Archeologist and an Epigraphist Books Ceylon and Malaysia, SinhalayoSenarath Paranavitana, CBE (Sinhala:සෙනරත් පරණවිතාන) (26 December 1896 – 4 October 1972) was a pioneering archeologist and epigraphist of Sri Lanka. His… Read more

A visiting Researcher at the Asian Culture Research Institute, Sophia University, Tokyo, Nhim Sotheavin specializes in Cambodian history. Graduated from the Cambodian Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RUFA) in 1996, he worked he worked as an archaeological researcher at the Sophia University Angkor… Read more

A member of the Faculty of Architecture at Khon Kaen University, Thailand, Sitta Kongsasana is assistant-professeur and has worked on several sites in Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. Read more

An associate professor at University of Hawaii Manoa, Paul A. Lavy received his BA in cultural anthropology and his MA and PhD in South and Southeast Asian art history. He taught ancient art history at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and Asian and Islamic art history at Pennsylvania State… Read more

Keo Duong កែវ ដួង is a Cambodian Ph.D. candidate at the University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany, and a lecturer at the History Department of Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), where he contributes to the program Changing The Story.  He obtained his BA in History from RUPP in 2008 and an… Read more

After becoming a Doctor in Indian Studies at Université Paris III -- his thesis dealt with the Religious and Secular Organization of the Khmer Temples between the 7th and 13th centuries --, Dominique Soutif joined the EFEO Siem Reap Branch in 2009, which he supervised until 2019. An… Read more

Senior lecturer in musicology at the Department of Music and Art at Linnæus University in Växjö (Sweden), Martin Knust studied musicology, theology and philosophy in Greifswald, Berlin and Dresden. Since 2007, he has held appointments and lectureships at the E.-M.-Arndt-University in Greifswald,… Read more

A specialist in modern history, Grégory Mikaelian (1976-) is a CNRS researcher since 2008. He made his PhD thesis at Paris IV Sorbonne into a seminal book, La Royauté d’Oudong, Réforme des institutions et crise du pouvoir dans le royaume khmer du XVIIeme siècle, Paris, 2009) and published many… Read more

Award-winning photographer La Mo (Ly Min) (24 Apr 1977, Siem Reap) is known for his photo-essays on wildlife, nature and people in Cambodia. He excels at capturing the magical and the sacred in daily life, with a keen eye on religious and folk celebrations. An ambassador for FujifilmX, he… Read more

Soeum Hoeung (1989, Siem Reap Province) was encouraged to take photography as more than a hobby by friends already familiar with the medium. In love with the Cambodian countryside, with a particular fondness for horses, she started with friend Sophon a full tour of the country on their motorbikes,… 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

Director of the Sarasvati Research Centre promoting Indian Ocean Community and National Water Grid for India, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman was from 1978 to 1995 Senior Executive at the Asian Development Bank in charge of some 650 development projects in 29 Asian countries.A linguist and epigraphist… 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

Specialized in pre-Thai polities, archeologist and art historian Pierre Dupont (1908, Paris -1955, Bangkok) has particularly studied the Mon kingdom of Dvaravati which predated the Sukhothai, Chiang Mai or Ayutthaya kingdoms that thrieve between the 13th and the 15 centuries. First at École du… Read more

Étienne Lunet de Lajonquière (or La Jonquière) (8 Aug 1861, Rodez, France - 23 Dec 1933, Saint-Sigismond, France) was a French Naval Infantry officer, explorer and geographer, author of the first comprehensive Atlas Archéologique de l'Indochine (1901) and, ten years later, the first Inventory of… Read more

Ethnologist Jacques Népote (14 Jan 1943, St-Nazaire d'Aude, France - 26 Jan 2006, Roissy) discovered Cambodia when he was sent to Battambang as a volunteer for the French Cultural Cooperation Service. Three years later, he came back all the way from France by car and started a prolific academic and… Read more