Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan.1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, linguist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia. Editor-in-chief of the Journal Asiatique from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in… Read more

Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam (4 Feb. 1943, Madras (Chennai)) is a respected dancer, research scholar, choreographer, singer, composer, teacher and author who has notorious contributed to the knowledge and practice of Indian classical dance. Born into a family of Tamil renowned artists -- her father, K.… Read more

Jan Fontein (22 May 1927, Naarden, Netherlands – 19 May 2017, Newton Upper Falls, MD, USA) was a Dutch art historian, museum curator and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1975 to 1987. Specialized in Indonesian archaeology and Easterrn Arts, Fontein started his career at the… Read more

Keo Narom កែវ ណារុំ (6 Feb. 1946, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian writer, editor, musicologist and the vice-director of the Committee on Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. She is the author of several books on Cambodian musical instruments and musical forms, including… Read more

Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri (29 July 1890, Tiruchirappalli, British India – 20 May 1978, Tiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, India) was a Sanskrit and Tamil language scholar, and a specialist in Tamil literature who was the first to translate Tolkāppiyam into English. Studying with Sanskritists, grammarians… Read more

Titaÿna, pen-name of Elisabeth Sauvy or Sauvy-Tisseyre (22 Nov. 1897, Mas Richemont, Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France - 13 Oct 1966, San Francisco, USA) was a French aviatress, reporter at large, photographer, known as the 'Queen of Tout-Paris' in the 1920s-1930s. Early divorced from her first… Read more

Louis Gascuel (23 Dec. 1865, Alès, France - 12 March 1939, Alès, France) was a mining civil engineer and alumni of École Polytechnique (year group 1885) who visited Cambodia in 1905, on his way to the Hin Boun (Hinboun) tin mines in central Laos, close to the Thai border.From 1896 to 1923, he… Read more

Maurice Comte is a French sociologist and economist who has extensively studied pre-colonial Cambodia.In 1980, he presented his doctoral thesis before a jury including Southeast Asian ethnography specialists Jean Chesnaux and Georges Condominas. Read more

Clotilde Chivas-Baron (5 Sept 1876, Chatte, Isère, France - 23 Dec. 1956, Chatte) was a French writer who authored several books about Vietnam and Indochina in the years 1910s-1930s, drawing from her life in the countryside near Hue with husband Michel Baron. She had arrived in Vietnam in 1909,… Read more

Anthony P. Grant (b. 1962, USA) is a linguist whose research has been focusing on language contact, language interweaving, loan-words, 'creolization', across the world and particularly in Southeast Asia. Professor of linguistics at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, GB, he gained a PhD (on… Read more

HSH [His Serene Highness: Mom Chao] Subhadradis Diskul หม่อมเจ้าสุภัทรดิศ ดิศกุล (23 Nov. 1923, Bangkok, Siam – 6 November 2003, Bangkok, Thailand), known as "Prince Suphad" among his friends, was a Thai prince, a professor and researcher in art history and archaeology. A son of Prince Damrong… Read more

David Porter Chandler (1933) is an American historian and academic regarded as one of the foremost western scholars of Cambodia's modern history. He has been residing for many years in Australia, where he is an emeritus professor at Monash University as well as an adjunct professor of Asian Studies… Read more

Eleanor Briggs, an award-winning photographer, has worked mostly in Southeast Asia and India since 1989, photographing people, nature and most specifically birds. In Cambodia, she managed to photograph a family of Giant Ibis birds, species thought to be extinct. In 2008, she was awareded the… Read more

Founded in 2006 by internationally-awarded filmmaker Rithy Panh and Ieu Pannakar, Senator, Minister of the Royal Palace, who was in charge of broadcasting and cinema services from 1955 until 1970 in independent Cambodia. A rich film and audio archive collection, the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh has… Read more

Researcher with Université Catholique de Lille (France), Centre d'histoire de Sciences-Po, Amaury Lorin holds a Doctorate in History from IEPP (Paris) and a grant from EFEO. He specializes in the history of colonialism, and has co-authored Nouvelle histoire des colonisations européennes (XIXe-XXe… Read more

Shao-yun Yang (b. Singapore) is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Denison University, USA, with his research including ethnocultural identities, foreign relations, and cross-cultural interactions in medieval or "Middle Period" China (broadly defined as 200-1600 CE). With a B.A. and… Read more

C.R. Boxer (8 March 1904, Isle of Wight-27 Apr. 2000, St. Albans, GB), legendary Far East researcher and scholar, was the chief of British Military Intelligence services in Hong Kong during WWII. His interest in Dutch and Portuguese maritime expeditions during the XV and XVI centuries led him to… 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

Thérese Le Prat born Cahen (19 March 1895, Pantin, France - 6 March 1966, Neuilly sur Seine) was a renowned photographer who worked on Cambodia, Tonkin and Annam (Vietnam) during several decades. When she divorced French publisher Guillaume Le Prat in the early 30s, he offered her a Rollex camera… Read more

Mimi Palgen-Maisonneuve (1918-1995) was a photographer and a journalist with Radio-Cambodge, active in Cambodia during the decades 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Married to Jacques Palgen, who was a professor of geodesy and photogrammetry, and a scientific consultant with the United Nations, Mimi… Read more