An independent researcher who worked extensively in Banteay Srei, the Bayon, Banteay Chhmar and Ta Prohm, Olivier Cunin is an architect-archeologist who has been promoting the technique of 3D reconstruction.With a PhD in architecture, Architect DPLG, Olivier Cunin has worked with several research… Read more

A Reuters newsreel agency correspondent during the American war waged in Indochina during the 1960s-1970s, Peter D. Sharrock, PhD, teaches at SOAS/University of London. He has been studying the spread of Buddhism (and Tantric Buddhism) across Maritime Asia as it is visible in the art and… Read more

Amitav Gosh (1956, Calcutta) is a worldwide respected Indian author in fiction and non-fiction, focusing on cultural and societal explorations. A former reporter with the New Delhi Indian Express newspaper, Gosh encountered recognition with his debut novel, The Circle of Reason (1986). His short… Read more

KONG Vireak is the director of Cambodia National Museum since 2012.After studying and training in archaeology, with five years spent on excavation sites in Angkor area, Vireak Kong undertook anthropological studies in France. Formerly Deputy Director and Director of the Royal University of Fine… Read more

Epigraphist Chhom Kunthea ឆោម គន្ធា (b. 1980) became the first Cambodia-born Sanskritist at international academic level after presenting her doctoral thesis at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) in 2016. She started to specialize in Sanskrit and epigraphy thanks to her BA tutor, the linguist… Read more

Harriett Winifred [H.W.] Ponder (1883, Buckinghamshire, UK - 1967, Brisbane Australia) was a reputed travel writer who wrote extensively on Cambodia, Java and the South Pacific. First published in 1936, her book about Angkor, Cambodian Glory, was almost as successful as the one by her American… Read more

Pech Tum Kravel ពេជ្រ ទុំក្រវិល (1943, Kandal- 2015, Phnom Penh) was an actor, writer, and the director of the Dance Department at Royal University of Fine Arts. He is the author of more than 20 books and essays on Cambodian culture and art, in particular at theater and dance. Born Chhorn Tort (ឈន… Read more

Hideo Sasagawa (XX) is a professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, College of Asia Pacific Studies, where he teaches the course "Religions of Asia Pacific". With a PhD in Areas Studies at Sophia University (Tokyo), and a master in Chinese Literature, he started to work on Cambodia in the… Read more

Henri Marchal (24 June 1876, Paris - 12 Apr. 1970, Siem Reap), director of the Archaeology Department at the École française d'Extrême-Orient, served as Chief Conservator of Angkor from 1916 -- after Jean Commaille was killed by looters -- to 1936, and then again after Second World War II, from… Read more

Samdech Chauvea ('Lord Prime Minister' in Khmer) Thiounn (8 Apr. 1864, Kompong Chhnang - Sep. 1946, Phnom Penh), also titled Samdech Chauvea Veanjay ("Lord Head of the Palace") served as Prime Minister, Minister of The Royal Palace and Treasury, and Minister of Fine Arts under the French… Read more

Sakada Sakhoeun (1986, Phnom Penh) is a senior archeologist with ADFKulen. Involved in several archaeological projects for Sydney University (Australia) and Sophia University (Japan), Sakhoeun joined the Archeological and Development Foundation/Phnom Kulen in 2009, spending his time between the ADF… Read more

A specialist in archeological laser scanning, Nina Hofer is a graduate of Vienna University, Department of Geography and Regional Research. In 2018, she co-directed the CALI (Cambodian Lidar Initiative) field season with Leng Vitou of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. She wrote about… Read more

After graduating from École du Louvre in 1997, and obtaining a PhD in Khmer Archeology in 2011 at Sorbonne-Paris III University, Jean-Baptiste Chevance has focused his research on the Phnom Kulen Mountain, 25 miles north-east from Angkor proper.Prospecting the mountainous area right after the… Read more

A graduate student and researcher associated with The Manusastra Project (INALCO, France, and RUFA (Royal University of Fine Arts), Cambodia), Prakaido Phurksakasemsuk is currently involved in a history research on the Bayon bas-reliefs. In September 2018, the theme of her Master's dissertation… Read more

American artist Lucille Sinclair Douglass (1878, Tuskegee, Alabama –1935, Andover, Massachusetts) graduated in 1895 from the Alabama Conference Female College, where her mother taught art. In 1899, she moved to Birmingham, where she made a living as both an artist and an art teacher. In 1907 she… Read more

Cecyl Holliday (who signed her contributions to The Mid-Pacific Magazine "Mlle. Cecyl Holliday") was a French teacher at Maui High  -- the first English-speaking high-school in Honolulu, inaugurated in 1913 --, an interpreter and a trustee of the Pan-Pacific Union. In 1926, she was awarded in… Read more

Social anthropologist and essayist Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985) has studied art, literature and societal formations through the prism of psychoanalysis and out-of-body experiences such as the influence of drugs or spiritual trance. With the constant theme of death and sex for background, this true… Read more