Michel Lorrillard (1966, Boulay, France) received his doctorate from the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. He joined the EFEO in 1997 and was appointed director of its Chiang Mai (1999-2000) and Vientiane (2000-2011) centers. Between 2001 and 2009, he conducted systematic surveys across the… Read more

After graduating from UAH (Universidad de Alcala, UAH, Spain) and researching with the Far East Asian Studies Department at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Veronica Walker Vadillo (Ph. D. in Maritime Archaeology, 2017, University of Oxford, England, with her thesis on the fluvial cultural… Read more

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, USA, Alison Kyra Carter researches the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and… Read more

Padmashree Ranjana Gauhar is a world-renowned Odissi (Indian classical style) dancer and choreographer who authored the book Odissi, Dance of the Divine. She learnt her art from Guru Mayadhar Raut, who gave classical status to this style originating from Odisha (formerly Orissa). A recipient of the… Read more

Marco R. Deyasi is an art historian and faculty member of the Department of Art History, Concordia University (Canada), with his research focusing on the impact of Vietnamese and Cambodian art and culture in France.His doctoral dissertation at Duke University (USA) was titled “French Visual Culture… Read more

Col. Jacob T. Child (19 Jan 1832, Philadelphia - 19 Oct 1905, Richmond, Missouri, USA) was an American diplomat and publicist.United States Minister Resident in Bangkok from 1884 to 1888, he later portrayed Siam and the Siamese court in his book The Pearl of Asia. He also served as US… Read more

Lindsay French is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island, USA. She graduated from Harvard University. Read more

Pelle Wijker is a PhD candidate in archaeology at Sorbonne Paris and CNRS, specializing in the comparative study of Khmer and Maya civilizations ('Urbanisme Khmer et Maya : analyse comparative des modèles de peuplement à l'aide d'ensemble de données Lidar'). Read more

Tain Gree (also U-Tain Wongsathit อุเทน วงศ์สถิตย์) is a researcher in Epigraphy, Philology, Historical Linguistics and History of Religion, lecturer at the Department of Oriental Languages and at the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Thailand.He specializes in the study of Indian… Read more

Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (9 April 1879, London – 5 Jan. 1972, Exmouth) was a Irish-British illustrious painter known for his portraits (including those of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and for his graceful depictions of Southeast Asian princesses and female dancers.Born into… Read more

With Christian Lauersen, co-founder and co-editor of Library Planet, a crowdsourced global resources for libraries around the world. Marie Eiriksson is a member of the IFLA committee. Read more

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Lois Conner (b. 1951, New York City, USA) is an American photographer and professor of photography who has published several acclaimed books on China and Tibet, and has extensively traveled around Asia. Her work is permanently exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC, Lausanne (Switzerland) and… Read more

Prof. Kishor K. Basa is the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha. He was the Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture, Govt of India in 2019-20. He is also the Chairman of Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the… Read more

Taizo Ichinose 一ノ瀬 泰造 (1 Nov. 1947, Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan - 29 Nov. 1973, Siem Reap, Cambodia) was a Japanese war photographer killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers while heading to Angkor Wat from embattled Siem Reap city on November 29, 1973. Some pictures and press articles about Taizo are… Read more

John Frederick Norman Lewis (28 June 1908, Forty Hill, UK – 22 July 2003, Saffron Walden, UK ) was a British novelist and travel writer who had served in the Intelligence Corps in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy during World War II, and whose travelogue in Indochina, A Dragon Apparent (1951) gives his… Read more

Christopher Pym (13 Jan 1929, Bristol, UK - 1 Dec 2001, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK) was a writer, a researcher on Cambodia's history and culture, and a local politician challenging the two-party system.A National Service officer during World War II, he was initially sent to Cambodia by… Read more

Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France -  28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Angkor Database - មូលដ្ឋានទិន្នន័យអង្គរ - 吴哥数据库 All you want to know about Angkor and the Ancient Khmer civilization, how it keeps attracting worldwide attention and permeates modern Cambodia. Indexed and reviewed books, online documentation, photo and film collections, enriched authors'… Read more

Author and artist Sappho Marchal-Brébion (1904, Paris - 2000), the daughter of French archeologist and Angkor Wat Conservator Henri Marchal, was the first researcher to study, document in drawings and count the numerous female stone figures in Angkor Wat. Sappho (sometimes spelled Sapho) Marchal… Read more