Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (b. 5 Nov 1939) is a French paleontologist specializing in birds of the Eocene and the Oligocene, a former Research Director at CNRS (1985-2005) and the discoverer with husband Roland Mourer of the Cambodian prehistoric cave site of Laang Spean ភ្នំទាក់ទ្រាំង ល្អាងស្ពាន in… Read more

Allah Rakha Rahman [also known as A.R.R.] (b. A. S. Dileep Kumar, 6 Jan. 1967, Madras) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer and songwriter who contributed to major Bollywood blockbusters since the 1990s and to some international films, a Padma Bhushan award recipient who explored… Read more

LinDa Saphan (b. 1975, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian artist, urban anthropologist and researcher who grew up in Canada and graduated in France, a co-organizer of the first Visual Arts Open festival celebrating Cambodian artists in 2005, and the lead researcher on John Pirozzi's celebrated movie, Don't… Read more

Sheldon Pollock (b. 1948, USA) is an American scholar researcher, translator specializing in Sanskrit philology, Indian intellectual and literary history, comparative intellectual history, who wrote about the language and meaning of ancient inscriptions in India and Southeast Asia.Educated at… Read more

George Wooley Spencer (1939, Maryland, USA - 19 Jan 2021, DeKalb, Illinois, USA) was an American historian who was extensively written on Tamil culture and Chola Empire history since he presented his PhD thesis at University of California, Berkeley, “Royal Leadership and Imperial Conquest in… Read more

Xu Zhaolin 許肇琳 [simplified 许肇琳] (b. 1936, Udong, Cambodia) is a Cambodian historian who settled in China at an early age, a professor at 中山大学东南亚研究所 [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Sun-Yatsen University] who been writing extensively on China-Cambodia relations since the earliest times,… Read more

Dr. Bernard Menaut (6 May 1879, Parentis-en-Born, France -1943, Rion-des-Landes, France) was a French physician who worked in Cambodia as Chief of Health Service from 1910 to 1939, trained numerous local doctors and studied Cambodian traditional medecine, as well as serving as personal physician to… Read more

Andrew Spooner (1840, Paris - 29 July 1884, Cascade du Bois de Boulogne, Paris) was a French-American merchant established in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh Ville] in 1861, a reporter with French magazine L'Illustration who covered the French army's assault on Bien-Hoa on 9 Dec. 1861, and an early Western… Read more

Kallidaikurichi Aiyah (K. A.) Nilakanta Sastri  (12 Aug. 1892, Kallidaikurichi, Tinnevely [now Tirunelveli] District, Madras Presidency, British India– 15 June 1975, Madras [now Chennai], Tamil Nadu, India) was an Indian historian specializing in South India, regarded as the most distinguished and… Read more

Chaloem [or Chalerm] Yongboonkerd [or Yongbunkerd] เฉลิม ยงบุญเกิด (2455=1912-2518=1975) was a Thai banking historian and theorician, a linguist and the author of the reference Thai translation of Zhou Daguan's records of Chenla.After studying Chinese loanwords in Thai language, Chaloem… Read more

Colonel Gerolamo Emilio [G. E.] Gerini พระสารสาสน์พลขันธ์ [Phra Sarasana Balakhandh] (1 Mar. 1860, Cisano sul Neva, Savona, Kingdom of Sardinia - 11 Oct. 1913, Turin, Italy) was an Italian military instructor in the Siamese army, an advisor to the Royal Court, a collector of Siamese antiquities and… 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

John Vink (b. 3 Feb 1948, Ixelles, Belgium) is an independent photoreporter, previously affiliated with photo agencies VU (1986-1993), Magnum (1997-2017) and MAPS (2017-2022), who lived during 16 years in Cambodia (2000-2016), with a first visit to the Kingdom in 1989. Based in Belgium since 2016,… Read more

Dr. Phanindranath Bose or Phanindra Nath Bose ফণীন্দ্রনাথ বসু (1896-1932) was a Bengali writer and historian, professor of history at the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan (now Shantiniketan, West Bengal)  who wrote about Indian influences in Cambodia, Champa… Read more

Walter Aschmoneit (b. 1941) is a global historian and development expert who worked in Cambodia during the crucial phase of reconstruction, from 1994 to 1998.He studied political science, history, agricultural economics of the Third World and Chinese language at Heidelberg University, Hanover… Read more

Prof. Daniel George Edward Hall (17 Nov. 1891, Hertfordshire, England - 12 Oct. 1979, Hitchin, UK) was a British historian, writer, emeritus professor of University of London, visiting professor at Cornell University (USA), a specialist of the history of Burma [Myanmar], who expanded his research… 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

Paul Léon Joseph Mus (1 June 1902, Bourges, France - 9 Aug. 1969, Murs, France) was a French researcher on Southeast Asian history who pioneered an approach combining social sciences, archaeological and ethnographical research, textual studies, and "championed a translocal approach that extended… Read more

Sylvain Lévi ( 28 March 1863, Paris, France - 30 Oct. 1935, Paris, France) was a famed French orientalist and indologist, an influentation professor of Sanskrit and Indian religion at Paris École pratique des hautes études and at the Collège de France, and a promoter of cultural exchanges between… Read more

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (1946, Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) – 14 Aug. 2021, Hawai'i, USA) was a Burmese American historian and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a specialist in early Southeast Asian and Burmese history.His parents - with brother John and sister… Read more