Pyiet Phyo Kyaw is a Professor of Archaelogy at University of Mandalay, Mandaly, Myanmar. He has conducted numerous researches on the Bagan site and the Bronze Age in Burma. Read more

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863, Avon, France – 31 Oct. 1931, Paris) was a professional French explorer and photographer whose photographs of Indochina and Cambodia were widely published, often without his knowledge.After spending his youth in Algeria, opening a photographic studio in Algiers in… Read more

Marie-Alexandrine Martin (1932-2013), affectuously nicknamed Mam, was a botanist and ethnologist who, as a CNRS researcher (and later Director of the CNRS Research Center), conducted ethnobotanical, ethnolinguistic and sociological fieldword across Cambodia in the 1960s and 1970s. Between 1965 and… Read more

Michel Jacq-Hergoual'ch (1943, Brittany, France - 2014) was an historian and geographer who specialized in Indian and Indianized States of Southeast Asia studies, in particular the Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula, as well as ancient and modern history of Siam, and history of Art. After… Read more

Preap Chanmara is a Cambodian art historian and a professor at the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA).He has particularly studied the influence of Reamker in Khmer culture and society (watch his 2019 conference at Bophana Center -- in Khmer). Read more

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Herbert Warington Smyth, "Warington" (4 June 1867 – 19 Dec. 1943, Redruth, UK) was a British traveler, writer, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam in the 1890s and later held several posts in the Union of South Africa. Warington went to Siam in 1890 as an unpaid… Read more

Émile Gsell (30 Dec 1838, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France - 16 Oct. 1879, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh Ville,Vietnam) was a self-taught French photographer who produced among the earliest photographs of Angkor Wat when he joined the Mekong Exploration Expedition led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée… Read more

Neha Jain is a freelance science writer based in Hong Kong committed to sharing science and sustainability stories.Before turning to writing, she worked in a cancer research lab and facilitated science learning among elementary school children through fun, hands-on experiments. Her science blog… Read more

Tyta Buth, artist name Tytaart (b. 3 Nov. 1996, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a Cambodian photographer who developed her passion while studying at the New York Parsons School of Art and Design. After exploring street candid photography, she has focused since her return to Cambodia on portrait… Read more

Amir Dan Aczel (6 Nov 1950, Haifa, Israel- 26 Nov 2015, Nimes, France) was an Israeli-born American mathermatician, lecturer in the history of mathematics and science, and author of books accessible to a large public who researched in particular the origins of "0". He has recounted how, while… Read more

Albert Savine (20 Apr 1859, Aigues-Mortes, France -- 6 June 1927, Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French writer, journalist, translator, publisher and penpusher who often went after lucrative yet reprehensible assignments -- a series of blatantly antisemitic pamphlets, for instance -- but died in… Read more

Prof. Adhir Chakravarti (24 Apr 1932, Kotalipara (now in Bangladesh - 20 Dec  1993, New Delhi, India) was a Sanskritist and Indian historian who studied extensively Southeast Asian cultures and Indian influences there.After studying under Dr. Niharranjan Ray's supervision, he worked with the… Read more

Lia Genovese is an independent researcher specializing in the archaeology of French Indochina, the Plain of Jars and other megalithic expressions in Laos and the region. Her current projects include a critical biography of the French archaeologist Madeleine Colani.With a PhD from SOAS University of… Read more

Alfred Salmony (10 Nov 1890, Cologne [Köln], Germany - 29 Apr 1958, Atlantic Ocean, heart attack aboard Ile-de- France ocean liner) was a museum curator and professor specializing in East Asian art, art of the Eurasian steppes, and Chinese jades, who also studied Southeast Asian art during his long… 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

Lim Bunhong (b. 4 May 1983, Siem Reap) is a Cambodian independent photographer who has extensively covered the teamwork on the conservation of Angkor Archaeological Park monuments as a technical officer at the Department of Monuments Conservation, APSARA Authority since 2020.With a MD in Education… Read more

Charya Burt is a master dancer; choreographer, vocalist and teacher of Classical Cambodian Dance, the founding artistic director of Charya Burt Cambodian Dance, a dance ensemble based in San Francisco North Bay, California, USA.Charya Burt's training began shortly after the Khmer Rouge genocide… Read more

John Burgess (1951, North Carolina, USA) first visited Cambodia in 1969, in his teen years. The son of a diplomatic family, he lived in India, Indonesia, and Thailand as a child. A former Washington Post foreign correspondent in Southeast Asia, he is the author of Stories in Stones: The Sdok Kok… Read more

Pech Tum Kravel ពេជ្រ ទុំក្រវិល (1943, Kandal- 2015, Phnom Penh) was an actor, writer, and the director of the Dance Department at Royal University of Fine Arts. He is the author of more than 20 books and essays on Cambodian culture and art, in particular at theater and dance. Born Chhorn Tort (ឈន… Read more