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

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

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

Michael Vickery (1 April 1931, Billings, Montana, USA - 29 June 2017, Battambang, Cambodia) was an American historian and lecturer whose novel approach to Ancient Cambodia breathed life into Khmer studies from the 1960s onwards. First as a young English teacher in the provinces of Cambodia, later… 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

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin (1944, Basel) is a researcher and publisher, Emeritus Professor in Ethnology at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.A consultant for UNESCO in Bali, Sumatra and Cambodia, she has taught cultural property rights and cultural heritage management as guest lecturer at Columbia… Read more

An Associate Professor at the College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, Douglas W. O'Reilly is an archaelogist active in Cambodia since 1999.In response to the looting of archaeological sites in Cambodia, especially the looting at the prehistoric site of Phum Snay, a… Read more

Hubert de Mestier du Bourg (25 Nov 1945, Paris) is an independent researcher and a consultant for various organizations in Japan.After studying at McGill University, Montreal, Institute of Comparative Law in Paris, National School of Oriental Languages (INALCO), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes… Read more

Georges Louis Condominas (29 June 1921, Haiphong – 17 July 2011, Paris) was a renowned cultural anthropologist.A specialist of South East Asia (his mother had Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese roots, his father a French navy officer), he has been described as the 'Proust of ethnology'. His field… Read more

William Anderson is a professional archaeologist who works as Project Manager with Dr Vincent Clark & Associates, a Melbourne-based cultural heritage consultancy. A cultural heritage advisor, he has managed large-scale cultural heritage projects, overseeing and reporting on fieldwork,… Read more

Museum professional and art historian, Robert S. Wicks is a specialist in Southeast Asian and native North American material culture. Skilled in Digital Humanities, Numismatics, History of Photography, U.S. Postal History. he is the Director of the Miami University (Ohio) Art Museum, and is engaged… Read more

Phon Kaseka ផុន កសិកា is a Cambodian archaeologist who had conducted excavations in Cambodia since 1999, and the Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Royal University of Cambodia.His unpublished MA Thesis (Phnom Penh, 2002) considered the Ancient Kiln Site at Cheung Ek. He has been… 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

George Cœdès (to be pronounced Zsedes) (10 Aug 1886, Paris, France – 2 Oct 1969, Paris) was a leading archeologist, linguist and historian in the field of Khmer studies.He was still a high-school student at Paris Lycee Carnot when he learnt Sanskrit and Khmer, publishing in 1904, one year after the… Read more

Lawrence Palmer ["Larry"] Briggs (17 Oct. 1880, Manton, Wexford County, Michigan, USA - ?) was a US diplomat and independent historian who dedicated his major work to the Ancient Khmer Empire.After graduating from University of Michigan in 1908, and teaching in Seattle (Washington State) in… Read more

A specialist in Southeast Asian Buddhism, Early Art and Archaeology studies, Nicolas Revire is post-doctoral research fellowship at the Art Institute of Chicago since early 2023, after lecturing at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Thailand, and being a guest lecturer at… Read more

A specialist in Southeast Asian Buddhism, anthropologist and linguist François Bizot (1940, Nancy) joined the Angkor Conservation Office in 1965, in charge of the topography of ancient monuments under J. Filliozat´s supervision. His interest in Khmer religion led him to develop scriptural and field… Read more

An art teacher and curator in Australia, with a Master of Arts from the Australian University in Canberra and two years at the Department of Fine Arts and Languages Studies at Sophia University (Tokyo), Darryl Leon Collins (1947, Adelaide, Australia -- 25 Apr 2023, Siem Reap, Cambodia) had been… Read more

An Assistant Professor in Tantric Studies at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) and PSL University in Paris, Andrea Acri (b. 1981) is a researcher in Hinduist and Southeast Asian religions and languages. With a Laurea degree in Oriental Cultures and Language from Sapienza University in Rome,… Read more