Charles Gravelle (b. Charles Jules Paul Darnis-Gravelle, 21 Sept 1864, Courtenay, France - 26 Oct 1929, Phnom Penh) was a French lawyer, the first director of Banque de l'Indochine (Phnom Penh branch), a patron of Cambodian arts who supported George Groslier in the founding of the Albert Sarrault… Read more

Albert Tissandier (1 Oct. 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… Read more

William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (b. 20 March 1965, Scotland, UK) is an acclaimed historian and art historian, a curator and broadcaster, and a co-founder and co-director of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, Rajasthan, India). He lives with his wife and three children on a farm… Read more

Comte Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol Lias (4 July 1840, Seix (Ariège), France - 6 May 1914, Paris) was a French explorer, naturalist and travel writer who visited Java and Sumatra in 1876, then Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia and Malaysia in 1884. He used to take photographs of the places he visited.Born… Read more

Robert Heine-Geldern [Robert Freiherr von Heine-Geldern before 1919] (16 July 1885, Grub, Wienerwald - 25 May 1968, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist and prehistorian specializing in Southeast Asia, a professor of ethnology and archaeology of India and… Read more

Eugène Pujarniscle ( 16 May 1881, Solliès-Toucas, France - 15 Oct. 1951, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French educator and novelist who offered his own definition of "colonial literature".A secondary school teacher in France, he resolved to leave for French Indochina in 1912, where he taught… Read more

Charles Robequain (23 June 1897, Auberives, Isère, France - 28 Sept. 1963, Rennes, France) was a French geographer, historian, economist and writer, amateur photographer, a pioneer in colonial and tropical geography who produced the first field-based doctoral monograph in geography on a region in… Read more

Madeleine Colani (13 Aug 1866, Strasbourg - June 1943, Hanoi) was a French educator, geologist and archaeologist who explored the northern Vietnamese of Hòa Bình in the 1929s, and published in 1930 the first comprehensive study on the megaliths of Upper Laos, cataloging around ten thousand of these… Read more

Pierre Singaravélou (b. 18 Jan 1977, Bordeaux, France) is a French historian, a British Academy Global Professor of History at King's College, London, a Professor of Modern History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and the director of the Center for Asian History (Sorbonne). He specializes… Read more

Rémi Abad is a professional photographer and journalist based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.In 2022, he joined Angkor Travel Photography, a photo tour and workshop agency launched in 2012 by photographers Alessandro Vannucci, Régis Binard and Chris Cusick. Themed tours ('Hidden Angkor', 'Secrets of… Read more

George D. Bonnyman (?-?) was a British Navy officer, Captain of the brig Pantaloon when the ship was commissioned for a commercial exploratory trip to Cambodia and Siam in February-June 1851, and again in September-November of that year.Little is known of him, except that he left notices on the… Read more

Ludvig Verner Helms [Verner Ludvig on his birth certificate] (14 April 1825, Varde, Denmark – 26 July 1918, Hampstead, England) was a merchant, explorer and author of Danish ascent who was active in trade across Southeast Asia during for twenty-eight years as a trader associated with British… Read more

Michel Louis Lucien Fournereau (15 May 1846, Paris - 19 Dec. 1906, Paris) was a French architect, explorer, archeologist, photographer and illustrator who documented the Khmer temples in the 1880s and 1890s and brought back to France moldings and sculptures exhibited at Paris Musée du Trocadéro, at… Read more

Louis Adolphe Bonard [or Bonnard] (27 March 1805, Cherbourg, France - 31 March 1867, Vanves, France) was a French naval officer who was governor of Cochinchina from 1861 to 1863 and, while campaigning against the insurrections, visited Angkor in September 1962. A graduate of École Polytechnique in… Read more

Félix Honore Sauveur Julien (1 Jan 1824, Toulon, France-1890) was a French navy officer (Lt de vaisseau) and author of biographies related to the history of the French Navy.An alumnus of Ecole Polytechnique (Promotion 1842), where he befriended Doudard de Lagree, he started his naval career on… Read more

Udayan Das is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India, and a doctoral candidate at the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. An Associate Fellow (Honorary) at the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, he was… 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

Pierre-Yves Manguin (b. 1945) is a maritime archaeologist and historian, Professor Emeritus at Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, a specialist in Funan and Srivijaya civilizations as part of of his focus on the history of the maritime façade of pre-modern Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis… Read more

Louis de Carné (16 March 1842, Quimper, France - 28 Nov 1870, Le Perennou (Plomelin), France) was a French diplomat and explorer who took part in the Mission d'exploration du Mékong in 1865-6.In 1863, de Carné joined the Commercial Section of the French Foreign Ministry. According to his father,… Read more

Yang Baoyun 杨保筠 is a researcher in Indian and Taoic religions, as well as Chinese foreign relations history at University of Peking, School of International Studies (SIS), Beijing, China, an adivsor to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Beijing, and a visiting professor in ASEAN history at… Read more