Willem Wolters is professor emeritus of economic anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. With a PhD with the University of Amsterdam, he has done anthropological fieldwork in the Philippines and Indonesia. His publications include: Politics, patronage and class conflict in… Read more

Till F. Sonnemann is an archaeologist, geophysician and researcher with the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Institut für Archäologie, Denkmalkunde und Kunstgeschichte, Germany. An alumnus of University of Münster, University of Sydney, and Universiteit Leiden, his PhD thesis was: Angkor… Read more

Thach Toan (b. 1935, Tràvinh, Mekong Delta) is a historian of Khmer civilization, formerly a physician Professor at Phnom Penh Faculty of Medicine, and a minister in various governments of the Khmer Republic era, between 1970 and 1975.According to some scholars, even if "the Americans, officials… Read more

After obtaining a PhD in archaeology at Paris IV Sorbonne on the Buddhist āśrama of Prasat Ong Mong, Chea Socheat became co-director of the excavation campaigns of the Yaśodharāśrama research programme. He supervises the post-excavation work, manages all cartographic and topographic data and… Read more

Ian Masters is an award-winning screenwriter who has worked across Africa and Asia for over twenty years. As a freelance scriptwriter and creative consultant for BBC Media Action he has developed and written TV and radio dramas from Bangladesh to Indonesia, Cambodia to South Sudan. His first… Read more

Coordinator for Apsara Authority Guidelines. Read more

A platform for performing arts, a meeting point for local artists and curious travelers, Bambu Stage thrives to change perceptions about the history, culture, and issues that impact Cambodia. Bambu Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia Read more

Affiliate to the Department of Archeology at University of Sydney, Australia, Eileen Lustig has extensively studied the Angkorian economy and commerce through epigraphic research. 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

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

Paul Fuchs (1936-19 Dec 2023, Pezenas, France) was a French agricultural engineer and a journalist who served as HM King Norodom Sihanouk's press attaché in the 1960s, and contributed to Agence Khmere de Presse (AKP).He researchedd and covered numerous royal ceremonies and popular festivals in… Read more

Guillaume-Henri Monod (1875, Vaud Canton, Switzerland - 1946, Aix en Provence, France) was a French civil administrator, geologist and writer who spent nearly 30 years in Cambodia, collecting Cambodian folktales and authoring a Khmer-French dictionary.After studying natural sciences in Paris, Monod… Read more

Albert Tissandier (1839, Paris – 5 Sept 1906, Jurançon, France) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist who founded with brother Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) [1] the popular science magazine La Nature in 1873, the two being intrepid balloonists and demonstrating… Read more

Historian, archaeologist and orientalist, expert in poliorcetics (the art of leading and resisting military sieges) and polemology, Victor Lluís Pérez Garcia teaches at Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).He has studied fortifications and walled cities from the Roman Empire, in Tibet and… Read more

Theam Bun Srun is a Cambodian historian whose major publication, Cambodia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Quest for Survival, 1840-1863 (M.A. Thesis, The Australian National University, 1981) has been a reference for researchers on Cambodian modern history. He was the Cambodian charge d'affaires… Read more

Cambodian archaelogist and historian Lan Sunnary (22 Feb 1945, Kampot - 15 Jul 2014, Paris) co-founded the cultural association Pierres d'Angkor in the 1980s. After working with the Angkor Conservation Office until 1972, he took part in many archeological discoveries, including a statue of Vishnu… Read more

Hippolyte Vattemare (?- 1882) was a French literary translator who translated a great number of books and essays from the English language, mostly related to discovery travels and geography.He translated -- or "adapted", since translation was then often considered as an exercise in condensing the… Read more

Mystery novelist, libertarian pamphleteer, co-founder of the famous French periodical "La Revue Universelle", Jules Lermina (27 Mar 1839, Paris - 23 June 1915, Paris) wrote many Edgar Allan Poe-inspired novels, including Les Loups de Paris (Parisian Wolves, 1876, under the pseudonym of William… Read more

João de Loureiro (1710, Lisbon - 18 Oct. 1791, Lisbon) was a Portuguese precursor in botanic, plant taxonomy and natural sciences. After joining the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), he became a missionary in Goa and Macau before reaching Cochinchina (Annam) where he stayed (officially as a… Read more

Emeritus professor of Architecture (School of Creative Science and Engineering) at Waseda University (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa 中川 武 (b. 1944, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a researcher in comparative archaeological history and the Director of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor… Read more