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in Cambodia since 1999, and the Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Royal University of Cambodia.His unpublished MA Thesis (Phnom Penh, 2002) considered the Ancient Kiln Site at Cheung Ek.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

A graduate from Kentucky University and University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shawn Fehrenbach is an archeologist specialized in ceramics.He currently leads PaleoWest, a US firm for high-quality solutions-oriented archaeological consulting services. Read more

Professor Miriam T. Stark has worked in Southeast Asian archaeology since 1987 and currently directs field-based archaeological research programs in Cambodia that focus on political economy and state formation. She is a co-director of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project and a co-investigator… Read more

Pierre Le Roux is an ethnologist and a professor of ethnology at Strasbourg University. Read more

Troy Dean Harris, ascetic-arts researcher and curator, is the founder of the Sritantra Project, under which name he has published several studies. He resides between Malabar and the Malaya peninsula. His primary research interests combine the comparative distribution and modification of ancient… Read more

Pia Conti is an independent researcher in Indic Ancient History, associated to SOAS University of London. She specializes in Tantric Buddhism, from the Indian peninsula to its variations across South East Asia.After graduating at University of Zurich and joining the English Department as a… Read more

Ang Choulean អាំង ជូលាន (1 Dec. 1949, Kompong Kleang, Cambodia) is a Cambodian independent ethnologist, a professor of historical anthropology and Old Khmer at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Archaeology, and a former Director of the Department of Culture of APSARA Authority,… Read more

Initially a math teacher, Alain Daniel (1940-2020, France) became a leading expert in Khmer language and translation after his first trip to Cambodia, in 1965, as the winner of Le Grand Voyage, a contest sponsored by the French TV public channel and Air France. Studying Khmer language and… Read more

SEM Sara was a doctoral student at Phnom Penh Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA) in the 1960s. He went missing during the Khmer Rouge period. Read more