Jan Jetso Boeles (1909, Leeuwarden - ?) was a Dutch independent researcher and photographer based in Thailand for many years. In 1976-1978, he photographed the Phimai temple and the Wat Sethupon in Bangkok. He directed the Siam Society Research Center, and was an honorary member of the Siam… Read more

Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915, Reading, UK – 5 December 2000, Ithaca, N.Y., USA) was a British academic, historian and author who did pioneering work on the ancient Malay kingdom of Srivijaya - following the exploratory studies by George Coedès - and Southeast Asia ancient history.Wolters was… Read more

Sulak Sivaraksa (Thai: สุลักษณ์ ศิวรักษ์) (27 March 1933, Siam) is a Thai social activist, professor, writer and the founder and director of the Thai NGO "Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation". He initiated a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in… Read more

A leading expert in Thai, Burmese and Khmer Arts history, Hiram W. Woodward Jr., "Woody", (b. Baltimore, Md., USA) fostered one of the main Asian art collections worldwide when he was the The Walters Arts Museum, 1986-2003. Since his retirement in 2003, he is Curator Emeritus of Asian Art at… Read more

An archaeologist and archaeobotanist with University College of London (UCL), Dorian Fuller (b. San Francisco) has worked widely in archaeobotany and archaeological field in Africa, the Middle East and across Asia. He is actively engaged in fieldwork projects in many parts of India (since 1997),… Read more

A professor of history at Ball State University, Kenneth R. Hall is a specialist in pre-1500 South and Southeast Asian history and culture, comparative urbanization and wider Indian Ocean maritime networking. Among his numerous publications, these are particulary interesting for Angkorean… Read more

Leonid Alexandrovich Sedov Леонид Александрович Седов (4 Dec 1934, Moscow- 15 Feb 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian sociologist and orientalist.After studying translation at Moscow Maurice Thorez Foreign Languages Institute (институт иностранных языков имени Мориса Тореза) and at the USSR… Read more

Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, Jinah Kim received her B.A. in Archaeology and Art History from Seoul National University (1998), and her M.A. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in History of Art from University of California,… Read more

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

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

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

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

An Associate Professor at the College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University (ANU), Douglas J.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… 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 and musicologist.A specialist of South East Asia (his mother had Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese roots, his father being a French Navy officer), he has been labeled as the 'Proust of… 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