Prof. Radha Krishna Chaudhary [sometimes Choudhary] (15 Feb 1924 – 15 March 1985) was an Indian historian and writer, specializing in historical and archaeological studies on Bihar as well as on Maithili literature. A professor at Ganesh Dutt College, Begusarai, Bihar, he was also a member of the… Read more

Guillaume-Henri [or Guillaume-Henry or Guillaume] Monod (1 January 1875, London, UK - 30 March 1946, Aix en Provence, France) was a French civil administrator, geologist and writer who spent nearly 30 years in Cambodia, collecting Cambodian folktales and authoring essays on Cambodian language and… Read more

Robert Philpotts (b. 1947) is a British author and illustrator who visited Cambodia in the early 1990s.PublicationsBuilding the Lancaster Canal, London, Blackwater Press, 1979, repub. 1998: ISBN 13: 9780946623006 The Tower of London to Tobacco Dock: Through St Katharine's Dock and Old Wapping,… Read more

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya (29 Aug 1928, near Dhaka [now Bangladesh] - 16 March 2014, Dhaka) was a French Indianist and Sanskritist of Indian origin, a specialist in Ancient Cambodia epigraphy and history.Educated in Calcutta [Kolkata] and at the Sanskrit University of Varanasi, he came to Paris in… Read more

Christopher Pym (13 Jan 1929, Bristol, UK - 1 Dec 2001, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK) was a writer, a researcher on Cambodia's history and culture, and a local politician challenging the two-party system.A National Service officer during World War II, he was initially sent to Cambodia by… Read more

Gwendolyn Wright (b. 1946, Chicago, USA) is an architectural historian and author, a professor of architecture and art history at Columbia University since 1983, and one of the hosts of the PBS television series History Detectives. Although she specializes in US architectural history and urban… Read more

Alfred Salmony (10 Nov 1890, Cologne [Köln], Germany - 29 Apr 1958, Atlantic Ocean, heart attack aboard theIle-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… Read more

Victor Lieberman is an American historian specializing in Southeast Asian History, particular Burma (Myanmar), the Marvin B. Becker Collegiate Professor of History and the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Asian and Comparative History at the University… Read more

Ly Team Teng លីធាមតេង 李添丁 [also Li Dham Ten] (15 May 1930, Kompong Siem District - 1978, captive of the Khmer Rouge) was a Sino-Khmer researcher and author who wrote many essays and novels that became Cambodian literature classics, and authored the first Khmer translation of Zhou Daguan's 13th… Read more

Jawaharlal Nehru, Pandit Nehru (14 Nov. 1889, Allahabad, India - 27 May 1964, New Delhi) was an Indian anti-colonial activist and statesman, the figure head leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, the first Prime Minister of independent India from 1947 to his death in… Read more

Raymond Cogniat (14 April 1896, Paris- 20 Feb. 1977, Paris, France) was a French art critic, historian of art and journalist who authored in 1932 Danses d'Indochine, a commented collection of photographs with a focus on Cambodian classical dance. Active since 1918 in the field of avant-garde… 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

Prof. Anton Zigmund-Cerbu (19 Oct. 1923, Bucharest, Romania - 10 March 1964, New York City, USA) was assistant professor of religion at Columbia University, NYC, USA, specializing on Buddhism and Indochinese studies. Among his students at Columbia were Thích Nhất Hạnh "Thầy" (b. 11 Oct. 1926, Hue,… Read more

Pierre Le Roux is a French ethnologist, professor at Université de Strasbourg, the editor of Jean Boulbet's autobiography (posthumous) third volume, De palmes et d'épines (2009), and a researcher on the lives and works of several ethnologists who have been active in Southeast Asia, including Jean… Read more

Alexandra Denes is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in heritage issues in Southeast Asia based in Thailand for over two decades, a Senior Research Associate and the Director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School, the Culture and Rights Project, and the Visual… Read more

Loup Durand (1933, Flassans-sur Issole, France - 18 April 1995, Paris) was a French crime and adventure writer who himself quite an adventurous life, traveling the world and working as barman, docker, flight attendant, interpreter, and as a reporter for UPI and The Washington Post, and published… Read more

Eugene-Albert Puyon, comte de Pouvourville, known as Albert Pouvourville or under his pen name Matgioi or Mat-Gioi -- probably from Vietnamese mắt giỏi, "sharp eye" (7 Aug. 1862, Nancy, France - 30 Dec. 1939, Paris) was a French orientalist, army officer and Foreign Legion soldier, Indigenous Civil… Read more

Gustave Coquiot (24 Sept 1865, Puits, France – 6 June 1926, Paris) was a French art critic, writer and dramaturgist who befriended major artists of his time, including Auguste Rodin -- to whom he served as private secretary --, Pablo Picasso, Paul Matisse. Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Paul… Read more

Thierry Bayle (b. 27 Feb. 1959, Paris) is a French former journalist, a writer, teacher, and currently cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Thailand since 2020..In addition to various publications in French print and audio media (Libération, France Culture, Globe-Hebdo, Lire, Créations,… Read more

Robert Chauvelot (  was a French colonial administrator, novelist and travel writer who visited Cambodia and Angkor around 1924, part of an extended trip across the Far East.A member of the Conseil supérieur des Colonies (Grand Council of the Colonies), a professor at Paris College des sciences… Read more