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

Joshua Ives Hammer (New York City, 1957) is an American journalist and foreign freelance correspondent. He worked many years with Newsweek magazine, and his articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Smithsonian, among other publications. Read more

Photographer Paisarn Piemmettawat has contributed to numerous books on Southeast Asian art and history, including Cambodia. He is currently Managing Director of River Books Publishing, Bangkok, Thailand. Read more

Shivani Kapoor is an independent researcher and a professor at Benaras Hindu University, Mumbai, India, specializing in archaeology and history of Southeast Asia.In 2015, Ms. Kapoor taught a course on 'Understanding Southeast Asia in the Light of Marine Archaeology'. Her research focuses on the… Read more

Jana Igunma is Ginsburg Curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian at the British Library, London, UK. After graduating from Humboldt University Berlin with a MD in Southeast Asian History in 1996, she worked in various research and cataloguing projects in Germany, specializing in Thai, Lao, Cambodian and… Read more

Social anthropologist and essayist Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985) has studied art, literature and societal formations through the prism of psychoanalysis and out-of-body experiences such as the influence of drugs or spiritual trance. With the constant theme of death and sex for background, this true… Read more

An Associate Professor at the College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University, Douglas W. O'Reilly is an archaelogist active in Cambodia since 1999.In response to the looting of archaeological sites in Cambodia, a non-governmental organization called Heritage Watch was founded… Read more

An associate professor at University of Hawaii Manoa, Paul A. Lavy received his BA in cultural anthropology and his MA and PhD in South and Southeast Asian art history. He taught ancient art history at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and Asian and Islamic art history at Pennsylvania State… Read more

A senior researcher with CNRS (France), Dr Bérénice Bellina-Pryce has directed since 2005 the Thai-French Archaeological Mission in Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula, excavating and surveying in the Chumphon and Ranong provinces. Her research focuses on exchange and cultural transfer processes around the… Read more

Gyles Iannone is an anthropologist and a Fellow Researcher with Trent University Archaelogical Research Centre (Canada).He specializes in Early State Formations and Urbanism (especially in the tropics), Settlement Archaeology, Resilience Theory, The Archaeology of Climate Change, Natural Disasters,… Read more

One of the first French planter and breeder in Cambodia, Octave Vandelet (1848?, Paris - 30 Sept. 1912, Phnom Penh) started to reside and work in Cambodia as early as 1872. A close confidant of Kings Norodom and Sisowath, Vandelet was the delegate for Cambodia to the Conseil Supérieur des Colonies… Read more

Fukuoka Grand Prize 1997 awardee, Chheng Phon (6 Mar. 1930, Kompong Cham - 22 Dec. 2016, Takhmao) was a prominent Cambodian dramatist and professor of history of art. After the civil war, he was a leading force in the restoration of Khmer culture and arts, particularly in his capacity of Minister… Read more

Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781, offshore Jamaica – 5 July 1826, London) was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies (1811–1816), and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen (1818–1824), known as the founder of modern Singapore and the Straits… Read more

Olivier de Bernon (1957, Paris) is a linguist, researcher and Khmerologist, an EFEO member since 1991 and the author of the first catalog of Cambodian liturgical and sacred texts within the Fonds pour l'édition des manuscrits du Cambodge (FEMC), under the high patronage of H.M. the late King… Read more

William Young Willetts (28 Nov. 1918, Purton Stoke, UK-30 Jan.1995, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was a British researcher in the field of South-East Asian and Chinese art studies, who served as curator of the National University of Singapore art museum from 1963 to 1972. A specialist in ceramics, he… Read more

Carl Newland Werntz (9 July 1874, Sterling IL, USA - 7 Oct 1944, Mexico City, Mexico) was an American impressionist artist,fine arts photographer, illustrator, cartoonist and educator who founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and traveled extensively around Asia, in particular Japan, Bali,… Read more

Dr. Barbara Watson Andaya is an Australian historian, Professor in the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i and former Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. In 2005-06 she was President of the American Association of Asian Studies. Educated at the University of Sydney… Read more

Sergey Lapteff С. B. Лаптев is a researcher and archaeologist with the Miho Museum, Japan. A graduate from the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow, Russia, he excavated Northwestern Cambodian sites in 2003-2007, and published about the findings. Amongst his other publications: Jomon culture… Read more

Edmond Jean Guy Henry-Biabaud, pen name Henry-Biabaud (7Jan 1913, Romorantin, France - 21 June 2006) was a French automobile engineer who visited Indochina in 1937 and 1938 due to 'the contengencies of his career', according to a short introduction to one of the many republications of his Deux ans… Read more

Dr. Prasanna Kumar (P.K.) Acharya (1890, Calcutta, India -- ) was an Indian scholar, translator, Sanskritist and historian of architecture who published the first complete edition and translation into English of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra (मानसार शिल्पशस्त्र), or Manasara, the ancient Indian… Read more