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

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

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

George T. Bliss (1927, Sarasota, Florida, USA - 8 Aug 2009, Sarasota) was a sculptor and photographer who spent many years in Africa and Southeast Asia as a USAID worker. His photographs illustrated George Coedès' seminal book, Angkor: An Introduction (1963). Read more

Corinne Rivoallan is a French public relations consultant and photojournalist who stayed five years in Cambodia in the 1990s.Now living in Wellington, New Zealand, she completed a Diploma in Business Studies (Public Relations), some social anthropology papers and a development studies paper with… 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

Joanna S. Duong is an independent Cambodian researcher who escaped the civil war in 1974, emigrated to the US, and came back to Cambodia to launch a party promoting women' s rights in the 1998 elections. Her MD thesis in 2002 dealt with The Role of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodian Society… 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

Martin Stuart-Fox (1939) is a retired Australian professor and journalist specialized in the history of Southeast Asia, primarily Laos. A field reporter for UPI in Laos in 1963, he moved to Vietnam in 1965-1966, covering the war along with his brother David Stuart-Fox, who later on settled down in… Read more

Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is an Indian social anthropologist specialized in Dance Studies and Visual Anthropology. A professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, she is also a choreographer who trained at Uday… Read more

Dr. Hung Hsiao-chun 洪曉純 is a Senior Research Fellow in archaeology and national history, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University (ANU). She has extensively published (in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages) on prehistoric and historic agricultural and… Read more

Virginia Mc Lean Thompson, also Virginia Adloff or Virginia Thompson Adloff (18 Oct 1903, Newtonville, MA - 9 Jan 1990, San Diego, CA, USA) was an American travel writer, international relations analyst, political scientist, translator and author who covered extensively Southeast Asia, publishing… Read more

Michel Ferlus (1935 - 11 March 2024, France) was a French linguist who studied the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia. In addition to phonological systems, he also studied writing systems, in particular the evolution of Indic scripts in Southeast Asia.After following classes in… Read more

Gerald Cannon Hickey (17 Dec. 1925- 10 Nov. 2010, Chicago, IL, USA) was an anthropologist who worked in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam. From 1956 through 1973, he conducted ethnographic research in Vietnam; during the 1960s his research was sponsored by the RAND Corporation. He built ties with… Read more

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