Pia Conti is an independent researcher in Indic Ancient History, associated to SOAS University of London. She specializes in Tantric Buddhism, from the Indian peninsula to its variations across South East Asia.After graduating at University of Zurich and joining the English Department as a… Read more

Cambodian archaelogist and historian Lan Sunnary (22 Feb 1945, Kampot - 15 Jul 2014, Paris) co-founded the cultural association Pierres d'Angkor in the 1980s. After working with the Angkor Conservation Office until 1972, he took part in many archeological discoveries, including a statue of Vishnu… Read more

Historian, archaeologist and orientalist, expert in poliorcetics (the art of leading and resisting military sieges) and polemology, Victor Lluís Pérez Garcia teaches at Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain).He has studied fortifications and walled cities from the Roman Empire, in Tibet and… Read more

Hippolyte Vattemare (?- 1882) was a French literary translator who translated a great number of books and essays from the English language, mostly related to discovery travels and geography.He translated -- or "adapted", since translation was then often considered as an exercise in condensing the… Read more

Mystery novelist, libertarian pamphleteer, co-founder of the famous French periodical "La Revue Universelle", Jules Lermina (27 Mar 1839, Paris - 23 June 1915, Paris) wrote many Edgar Allan Poe-inspired novels, including Les Loups de Paris (Parisian Wolves, 1876, under the pseudonym of William… Read more

João de Loureiro (1710, Lisbon - 18 Oct. 1791, Lisbon) was a Portuguese precursor in botanic, plant taxonomy and natural sciences. After joining the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus), he became a missionary in Goa and Macau before reaching Cochinchina (Annam) where he stayed (officially as a… Read more

Theam Bun Srun is a Cambodian historian whose major publication, Cambodia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A Quest for Survival, 1840-1863 (M.A. Thesis, The Australian National University, 1981) has been a reference for researchers on Cambodian modern history. He was the Cambodian charge d'affaires… Read more

Jan Fontein (22 May 1927, Naarden, Netherlands – 19 May 2017, Newton Upper Falls, MD, USA) was a Dutch art historian, museum curator and the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1975 to 1987. Specialized in Indonesian archaeology and Easterrn Arts, Fontein started his career at the… Read more

Emeritus professor of Architecture (School of Creative Science and Engineering) at Waseda University (Tokyo), Takeshi Nakagawa 中川 武 (b. 1944, Toyama Prefecture, Japan) is a researcher in comparative archaeological history and the Director of the Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor… Read more

Gabriel Ferrand (22 Jan.1864, Marseille - 31 Jan. 1935, Paris) was a French orientalist, linguist and translator who traveled extensively as a diplomat, serving as Consul of France in Madagascar and in Somalia. Editor-in-chief of the Journal Asiatique from 1920 until his death, Ferrand sought in… Read more

Pandit S. Subrahmanya Sastri (29 July 1890, Tiruchirappalli, British India – 20 May 1978, Tiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, India) was a Sanskrit and Tamil language scholar, and a specialist in Tamil literature who was the first to translate Tolkāppiyam into English. Studying with Sanskritists, grammarians… Read more

Titaÿna, pen-name of Elisabeth Sauvy or Sauvy-Tisseyre (22 Nov. 1897, Mas Richemont, Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France - 13 Oct 1966, San Francisco, USA) was a French aviatress, reporter at large, photographer, known as the 'Queen of Tout-Paris' in the 1920s-1930s. Early divorced from her first… Read more

Louis Gascuel (23 Dec. 1865, Alès, France - 12 March 1939, Alès, France) was a mining civil engineer and alumni of École Polytechnique (year group 1885) who visited Cambodia in 1905, on his way to the Hin Boun (Hinboun) tin mines in central Laos, close to the Thai border.From 1896 to 1923, he… Read more

Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam (4 Feb. 1943, Madras (Chennai)) is a respected dancer, research scholar, choreographer, singer, composer, teacher and author who has notorious contributed to the knowledge and practice of Indian classical dance. Born into a family of Tamil renowned artists -- her father, K.… Read more

Keo Narom កែវ ណារុំ (6 Feb. 1946, Phnom Penh) is a Cambodian writer, editor, musicologist and the vice-director of the Committee on Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia. She is the author of several books on Cambodian musical instruments and musical forms, including… Read more

Clotilde Chivas-Baron (5 Sept 1876, Chatte, Isère, France - 23 Dec. 1956, Chatte) was a French writer who authored several books about Vietnam and Indochina in the years 1910s-1930s, drawing from her life in the countryside near Hue with husband Michel Baron. She had arrived in Vietnam in 1909,… Read more

Anthony P. Grant (b. 1962, USA) is a linguist whose research has been focusing on language contact, language interweaving, loan-words, 'creolization', across the world and particularly in Southeast Asia. Professor of linguistics at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, GB, he gained a PhD (on… Read more

HSH [His Serene Highness: Mom Chao] Subhadradis Diskul หม่อมเจ้าสุภัทรดิศ ดิศกุล (23 Nov. 1923, Bangkok, Siam – 6 November 2003, Bangkok, Thailand), known as "Prince Suphad" among his friends, was a Thai prince, a professor and researcher in art history and archaeology. A son of Prince Damrong… Read more

John McDermott's love for Asia began in the early 1990s when he moved to Thailand from the US to join the staff of a magazine based in Bangkok as chief photographer. During his travels on assignments, McDermott developed a strong personal interest in the many cultural heritage sites and ancient… Read more

Shao-yun Yang (b. Singapore) is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Denison University, USA, with his research including ethnocultural identities, foreign relations, and cross-cultural interactions in medieval or "Middle Period" China (broadly defined as 200-1600 CE). With a B.A. and… Read more