Amalananda (A.) Gosh (3 March 1910, Varanasi, British India – 1981, New York City, USA) was an Indian archaeologist and paleoarchaeologist who conducted several archaeological expeditions around India during the 20th century and authored numerous books and publications, including An Encyclopaedia… Read more

Hermann Kulke (b. 1938, Berlin) is a German historian and Indologist, a former professor of South and Southeast Asian history at the Department of History, Kiel University (1988–2003). After receiving his PhD in Indology from Freiburg University in 1967, he taught for 21 years at the South Asia… Read more

Dr. Dawn F. Rooney is an art historian and independent scholar specialising in Southeast Asia. She is the author of nine books and numerous articles on Asian art, including Angkor: An Introduction to the Temples (1994), Angkor Observed (2001) and The Beauty of Fired Clay: Ceramics of Cambodia,… Read more

French archeologist, Indianist, philologist and researcher Louis Finot (1864, Bar sur Aube -1935, Toulon, France) was named in 1898 director of the archaeological mission in Indochina, which would become two years later the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). He remained its director until… Read more

Translator of major works on Angkor and Cambodia from French into English, author of numerous books on the Siamese civilization. Representative of the British Council in South East Asia for many years. Read more

Dr. Dineshchandra (D.C.) Sircar [also D.C. Sarkar] (1907, Krishnanagar, Bengal –1985, Calcutta [Kolkata], India), was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, Chief Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey of India (1949–1962), Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and… Read more

Sishtri Dokras (19 Nov. 1993, Nagpur, India) is an architect who works on sustainable architecture with several projects, including IxDF (Interaction Design Fondation) and Auroville architecture labs.She has co-authored several research papers with Uday Vasant Dokras, including a Comparison Between… Read more

Tsuda Kojiro 津田浩二郎 is a researcher at the Department of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Japan, who worked on several archaelogical sites in Cambodia. Read more

Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat is a researcher at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University (Australia). He specializes in Mythology and Folklore, Indian Religions and History of Religion.Dr. Bapat has completed a translation from Marathi into English of an… Read more

Philologist, self-taught photographer and naturalist Henri Alexandre Mouhot (15 May 1826, Montbeliard, France -10 Nov. 1861, Naphan, Laos) started exploring South East Asia in 1857 with the support of the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London. French authorities never… Read more

A scholar in Hindu studies, Sanskrit scriptures and Iconographic History, Adalbert Gail has published several studies on Hindu and Buddhist mythology, South Asian and Khmer arts. Professor emeritus Dr. Gail held the chair on History of Indian Art at Freie Universität Berlin until his retirement in… Read more

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

Charles Duroiselle (1871-1951) was a French-born Burmese historian and archaeologist, noted Pali scholar and epigrapher, who published monographs on Mandalay Palace and other related Burmese subjects. Throughout his career, he excavated over 120 monuments around Burma (now Myanmar).A member of the… Read more

The French School of the Far East (École française d'Extrême-Orient, abbreviated EFEO) was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi, in what was then French Indochina. After the independence of Vietnam, its headquarters were transferred to Phnom Penh in 1957, and to Paris in 1975. Its main fields… Read more

Born to Cambodian refugees in Long Beach, California, Prumsodun Ok started studying Khmer classical dance with the Sophiline Arts Ensemble. His interdisciplinary performances contemplating the “avant-garde in antiquity” have been presented at the Department of Performing Arts (Cambodia), Bangkok… Read more

Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky (князь Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский, 26 Aug. 1861, Orianenbaum, Imperial Russia – 26 November 1921, Detskoe Selo) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nikolay II and accompanied him when we as Tsarevich… Read more

Dr. István Zelnik (1950-) is a former Hungarian diplomat in Vietnam (1970) turned businessman and art collector. More than 1,000 of the Istvan Zelnik Collection's 50,000 Southeast Asian artefacts were on public display in Budapest from 2011 to 2013, when the Southeast Asia Gold Museum was closed… Read more

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926, Newark, USA - 5 April 1997, New York) was an American poet, writer and social activist, initiator of the Beat Generation movement with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, and a perceptive explorer of Hinduist and Buddhist cultures, especially after his first… Read more

Suthep Kritsanavarin is a Thailand leading photojournalist covering environmental, social and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades. His award-winning work has been published internationally in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, National Geographic Thailand,… Read more

HE Nouth Narang (17 Jan 1937, Kratie, Cambodia - 9 Aug 2023, Paris, France) was a Cambodian diplomat, professor and statesman, a Khmer civilization scholar who was the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia just after Angkor was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992.From 1963… Read more