Walter Burton Harris (29 August 1866, London – 4 April 1933, Malta [buried in Tangiers, Morocco]) was a journalist, writer and traveler who settled in Morocco at age 19, where he achieved fame with his work as special correspondent for The Times of London, traveled through the Caucasus, Persia,… Read more

Soth Polin [also Suddh Pulin] សុទ្ធ ប៉ូលីន( b. 1943, Chroy Thmar village, Kompong Cham, Cambodia) is a Cambodian writer who published to great acclaim his first novel, A Meaningless Life, in 1965, during the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era, a renowned journalist who worked with Khmer Ekareach (The… Read more

Sukanta Chaudhuri (b. 1950, Calcutta (Kolkata), India) is Professor Emeritus at ​the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A famed literary translator and editorial theorist, he was the project director of Bichitra [বিচিত্রা: বৈদ্যুতিন রবীন্দ্র-রচনাসম্ভার Bichitra: Online… Read more

Phuy Meychean is a Cambodian researcher in Khmer art history focusing on representations of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses, and an intern for the SOAS program Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art, London. With a BA in Archaeology from the Royal University of… Read more

Morris Rossabi (b. 5 Dec. 1941, Alexandria, Egypt) is an American historian specializing in Central Asia, Mongol and Chinese History, a professor at City University of New York and an associate professor at Columbia University., New York City, USA.His Yemenite Jewish family moved to Egypt in the… Read more

Dr Sally Frances Low is an Australian researcher in law history and a specialist in international development assistance. From 1993 until 2013, Sally Low was a project designer, evaluator and manager in international development programs in Asia and the Pacific with an emphasis on the rebuilding of… Read more

Claude Farrère [penname of Frédéric-Charles Bargone] (27 April 1876, Lyon France - 21 June 1957, Paris) was a French Navy officer and a prolific writer known for his depiction of French colonialism in Saigon with Les civilisés, Prix Goncourt 1905 (he was 29 and was unknown in literary circles), for… Read more

Luc Ionesco (1934, Paris - 1977, Paris) was a professional photographer who worked with EFEO/Siem Reap from 1962 to 1966, documenting the major Khmer monuments and documenting the ongoing restoration works. He also contributed to the photographic documentation of the National Museum of Cambodia in… Read more

Rachel Wheatcroft (10 Sept. 1868, Biéville [Beuville], Normandy, France - 25 March 1942, Coneys, Guildford, Surrey, UK) was a British visual artist who went to Siam and Cambodia around 1925, a journey that inspired her a book she illustrated with drawings and paintings in pastel colors.  Daughter… Read more

Diana L. Eck (b. 1945, Tacoma, Washington, USA) is a scholar of religious studies, a professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard Universty since 1976- where she co-founded and heads the Pluralism Project -, and with partner Dorothy Evans the first same-sex couple having been… Read more

Marie Aberdam is a French historian, lecturer and researcher in modern and social history of Cambodia. Her doctoral thesis in 2019 - under the supervision of Pierre Singaravélou - summarized her in-depth research on the Cambodian social elites in the colonial context.Focusing on socio-economics,… Read more

Docteur Jacobus X was the well-kept pseudonym of Louis-François Jacolliot (31 Oct. 1837, Charolles, France - 30 Oct. 1890, Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, France), a French colonial civil servant and compulsive writer who, while a judge of criminal court in Pondicherry (India) and Tahiti (French… Read more

John Gilman D'Arcy Paul [or J.G. D'Arcy Paul or J.Gilman D'Arcy Paul or J.G.D. Paul or John Paul] (31 Jan. 1887, Baltimore, Maryland - 12 Jan. 1972, Gilford, MD, USA) was an American diplomat, patron of the arts, globetrotter and landowner in Maryland, USA, who authored the first English… Read more

Anna A. Ślączka, Ph.D. (2006), Leiden University, is Curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on Hindu art and ritual, including Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology (Brill, 2007).After studying Sanskrit… Read more

Lt-Colonel Fernand Abraham Bernard (24 July 1866, Nîmes, France - 1st Aug. 1961, France) was a French colonial army officer from 1891 until his retirement on 5 Aug. 1908, an entrepreneur and businessman in Indochina and Java who helped to fund the French Resistance network Combat, and the leading… Read more

Iwai Hirosato 岩井大慧 [also Iwai Daisuke 岩井大慧] (1891, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan -1971) was an administrator of the Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) from its foundation by Iwasaki Hisaya (1865-1955) in November 1924, and a researcher in Buddhist History specializing in the Yuan and Sung dynasties in China… Read more

Jean Laurent Delvert (19 May 1921, Vincennes, France - 24 June 2005, Paris) was a French geographer who spent ten years in Cambodia as part of his academic career and wrote extensively about Southeast Asia and tropical geography.Delvert was appointed assistant professor in geography in 1946, spent… Read more