Professor in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry at Monash University and Emeritus Professor at Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, Maurice Eisenbruch has extensively studied the Khmer Rouge regime from a psychological angle, as "a case of autogenocide". Read more

A movement artist based in Singapore, Chloe Calderon Chotrani (1992, Manila) is a dance theorician and practicioner. Holding a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Arts from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) and a BA in Arts Management, she has trained and performed with Romançon Dance… Read more

Mathematician and civil engineer Terry Lustig is an independent scholar, affiliated to the Greater Angkor Project and the University of Sydney (Department of Archeology). 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

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

Dr. Uday Dokras is a specialist in Human Resources who has authored several popularization and research books on Indian and Southeast Asia civilizations. A gradutate of Nagpur University, India, with a PhD from Stockhom University, Sweden, Uday Dokras has worked as consultant in California,… Read more

George T. Bliss (1927, Sarasota, Florida, USA - 8 Aug 2009, Sarasota) was a sculptor and photographer who spent many years in Africa and Southeast Asia as a USAID worker. His photographs illustrated George Coedès' seminal book, Angkor: An Introduction (1963). Read more

Corinne Rivoallan is a French public relations consultant and photojournalist who stayed five years in Cambodia in the 1990s.Now living in Wellington, New Zealand, she completed a Diploma in Business Studies (Public Relations), some social anthropology papers and a development studies paper with… Read more

William J. Gedney (4 Apr 1915, Orchards, WA - 14 Nov 1999, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) was a linguist specialized in Southeast Asian languages, studying and documenting Thai and twenty-two more idioms. in 1947, he moved to Thailand and worked with some of the most important scholars in Thai literature and… Read more

Initially a mason and building engineer in Southwest France like his father, Pascal Royère (6 July 1965 - 5 Feb. 2014, Villeneuve-lès-Boulloc) graduated the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture in Nantes in 1994 with a restoration project dedicated to the Southern Kleang at Angkor Thom. In… Read more

In 1886, a N.V. Sultanov published the first major scientific research on Khmer Art in Russian, in the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Arts (Xмерское искусство). Soviet and Russian historians have never identified the author so far. Our guesswork is that he might have been N.V. Sultanov, the… Read more

James Fergusson (22 Jan. 1808, Ayr, Scotland - 9 Jan. 1886, London, Great Britain) was a Scottish businessman and planter in India, and a self-taught architect whose fascination with the "True [or Pure, or Natural] Style" in Indian arts led him to write his monumental History of Indian and Eastern… Read more

Dr. Adolf Philipp Wilhelm Bastian (26 June 1826, Bremen, Germany – 2 Feb. 1905, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago), an avid traveler and ethnographer, considered as one of the founders of modern anthropology and ethnology as scientific disciplines (as well as 'the father of German ethnology'),… Read more

Martin Stuart-Fox (1939) is a retired Australian professor and journalist specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, primarily Laos. A field reporter for UPI in Laos in 1963, he moved to Vietnam in 1965-1966, covering the war along with his brother David Stuart-Fox, who later on settled down in… Read more

Joanna S. Duong is an independent Cambodian researcher who escaped the civil war in 1974, emigrated to the US, and came back to Cambodia to launch a party promoting women' s rights in the 1998 elections. Her MD thesis in 2002 dealt with The Role of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodian Society… Read more

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is an Indian social anthropologist specialized in Dance Studies and Visual Anthropology. A professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, she is also a choreographer who trained at Uday… Read more

Dr. Hung Hsiao-chun 洪曉純 is a Senior Research Fellow in archaeology and national history, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University (ANU). She has extensively published (in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages) on prehistoric and historic agricultural and… Read more

Virginia Mc Lean Thompson, also Virginia Adloff or Virginia Thompson Adloff (18 Oct 1903, Newtonville, MA - 9 Jan 1990, San Diego, CA, USA) was an American travel writer, international relations analyst, political scientist, translator and author who covered extensively Southeast Asia, publishing… Read more

Michel Ferlus (1935 - 11 March 2024, France) was a French linguist who studied the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia. In addition to phonological systems, he also studied writing systems, in particular the evolution of Indic scripts in Southeast Asia.After following classes in… Read more

Gerald Cannon Hickey (17 Dec. 1925- 10 Nov. 2010, Chicago, IL, USA) was an anthropologist who worked in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam. From 1956 through 1973, he conducted ethnographic research in Vietnam; during the 1960s his research was sponsored by the RAND Corporation. He built ties with… Read more