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

Researche at CERPP (Université Toulouse le Mirail) and IRSEA-CNRS (Marseille, France), Didier Bertrand has devoted three years of field work studying the practices of Cambodian mediums and kru (healers). An ethno-psychologist and a Doctor in Intercultural Psychology, Didier Bertrand has also… Read more

Art Historian at the University of Sydney, Gillian Green has authored several books on Khmer and South East Asian textiles, weaving and print techniques. She was an Honorary Associate in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney and president of the Asian Arts… Read more

Art historian associated with Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Nadine André-Pallois has published several studies on Indochina painters, in particular from Vietnam. Read more

Sent to South East Asia as an enlisted private in the Foreign Legion ('Légion Étrangere'), Jean Narcisse Commaille (24 June 1868, Marseille - 30 Apr. 1916, Siem Reap) became the First Conservateur (Curator) of Angkor Wat in July 1908 after joining the EFEO as a mere secretary-accountant eight years… Read more

A leading specialist in Southeast Asian religious history, performing and visual arts, Solange Thierry née Bernard (1921, Mehun-sur-Yevre, France - 2009) was a Curator of Phnom Penh National Museum from 1947-1949. After graduating in Khmer and Siamese languages, she studied Sanskrit, Pali and… Read more