Marie Aberdam is a French historian, lecturer and researcher in modern and social history of Cambodia. Her doctoral thesis in 2019 - under the supervision of Pierre Singaravélou - summarized her in-depth research on the Cambodian social elites in the colonial context.Focusing on socio-economics,… Read more

Docteur Jacobus X was the well-kept pseudonym of Louis-François Jacolliot (31 Oct. 1837, Charolles, France - 30 Oct. 1890, Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, France), a French colonial civil servant and compulsive writer who, while a judge of criminal court in Pondicherry (India) and Tahiti (French… Read more

John Gilman D'Arcy Paul [or J.G. D'Arcy Paul or J.Gilman D'Arcy Paul or J.G.D. Paul or John Paul] (31 Jan. 1887, Baltimore, Maryland - 12 Jan. 1972, Gilford, MD, USA) was an American diplomat, patron of the arts, globetrotter and landowner in Maryland, USA, who authored the first English… Read more

Anna A. Ślączka, Ph.D. (2006), Leiden University, is Curator of South Asian Art at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on Hindu art and ritual, including Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India: Text and Archaeology (Brill, 2007).After studying Sanskrit… Read more

Lt-Colonel Fernand Abraham Bernard (24 July 1866, Nîmes, France - 1st Aug. 1961, France) was a French colonial army officer from 1891 until his retirement on 5 Aug. 1908, an entrepreneur and businessman in Indochina and Java who helped to fund the French Resistance network Combat, and the leading… Read more

Iwai Hirosato 岩井大慧 [also Iwai Daisuke 岩井大慧] (1891, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan -1971) was an administrator of the Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) from its foundation by Iwasaki Hisaya (1865-1955) in November 1924, and a researcher in Buddhist History specializing in the Yuan and Sung dynasties in China… Read more

Jean Laurent Delvert (19 May 1921, Vincennes, France - 24 June 2005, Paris) was a French geographer who spent ten years in Cambodia as part of his academic career and wrote extensively about Southeast Asia and tropical geography.Delvert was appointed assistant professor in geography in 1946, spent… Read more

Po Dharma Quang [born Quảng Văn Đủ] (9 Oct. 1948, Chất Thường Village (Cham: Palei Baoh Dana), Ninh Thuận Province, Vietnam - 22 Feb. 2019, Toulouse, France) was a researcher in Southeast Asian history specializing in ethnic minorities - Cham in particular -, a human rights activist and a member of… Read more

Hugo Suter (dates unknown) was a German businessmen and diplomat, Deputy-Director of the Deutschasiatisechn Bank [German-Asian Bank] and future consul of the United States of Brazil in Shanghai in 1908, when he took a trip to Angkor he recounted in his book Angkor: Eine Reise Nach Der Ruinen Von… Read more

Mathieu Guérin is a researcher and a professor of history at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris, specializing in Southeast Asian agrarian societies and ethnic minorities, the social and environmental history of Southeast Asia and particularly Cambodia in the… Read more

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

Kisari Mohan [K.M.] Ganguli (1 Dec. 1848, Shibpur, Howrah, Bengal - 15 Jan. 1908, Calcutta [Kolkata], India) was an Indian translator known for being the first to provide a complete translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata in English. His work was published as The Mahabharata of… 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