Ian Masters is an award-winning screenwriter who has worked across Africa and Asia for over twenty years. As a freelance scriptwriter and creative consultant for BBC Media Action he has developed and written TV and radio dramas from Bangladesh to Indonesia, Cambodia to South Sudan. His first… Read more

Charles Keyes is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, and until 2006 director of the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of numerous articles and several books, including The Golden Peninsula: Culture and… Read more

Tain Gree (also U-Tain Wongsathit อุเทน วงศ์สถิตย์) is a researcher in Epigraphy, Philology, Historical Linguistics and History of Religion, lecturer at the Department of Oriental Languages and at the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Thailand.He specializes in the study of Indian… Read more

Philip Norman Jenner (16 Oct 1921, Seattle, USA - 4 Jan 2013, Olympia, USA) was a Professor Emeritus of Cambodian and Southeast Asian linguistics, author of several dictionaries and grammar manuals of Old and Middle Khmer. At age 11, he discovered his passion for ancient languages when learning… Read more

Prof. Adhir Chakravarti (24 Apr 1932, Kotalipara (now in Bangladesh - 20 Dec  1993, New Delhi, India) was a Sanskritist and Indian historian who studied extensively Southeast Asian cultures and Indian influences there.After studying under Dr. Niharranjan Ray's supervision, he worked with the… Read more

Mariko Shimoda しのだ まりこ is a doctoral candidate in Archaeology, Waseda University, Japan. Her research interests include Urban Archaeology, Architecture, Conservation of historical monuments, GIS Applications, Cambodian History, History of Maritime Trade. She has worked in Angkor on several… Read more

Andrew Harris is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Southeast Asian Archaeology and Numismatics at National University of Singapore, Singapore, investigating ancient coin production and distribution across premodern Southeast Asia using machine learning. He is Director of the Angkor Vihara… Read more

Grace Gallatin Thompson-Seton (28 Jan 1872, Sacramento, California - 19 Mar 1959, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American writer and suffragist who visited Angkor in 1936, part of a Southeast Asia grand tour she narrated in her 1938 book, Poison Arrows. The adventurous, free-spirited Grace published… Read more

Tran Quoc Nam (1962, Phnom Penh) is a freelance researcher based in Saigon. His main interest is history and language in relation to exchanges between the Vietnamese and the Khmer cultural spheres. When his family was expelled from Cambodia in 1970 due to the 'Cap Duon' policy implemented by the… 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

Françoise Denoyelle is a French historian, professor and photography curator. After her doctoral thesis in 1991 (Le marché et les usages de la photographie à Paris pendant l’entre-deux-guerres), she taught at the School of Photography Louis-Lumière, and coordinated the collective of photographers… Read more

Alain Schnapp (18 sep 1946, Paris, France) is an archaeologist and historian, Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology at the Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). His main interests are Greek iconography and cultural history of Antiquity. He has been visiting scholar or visiting professor in… Read more

Huang Lele (14 July 1988, Nanjing, China) is a visual artist and curator, and apost-doctoral researcher in Buddhist Art with Peking University, China.She has particularly studied The Gender Transformation of Avalokitesvara in Sui Tang, A Parallel Study Between India and China (Univision Books, New… Read more

Pattaratorn Chirapravati is a Thai scholar, Professor of Asian Art History and Curatorial Studies and Program Vice Director of Asian Studies at California State University, USA. Ms. Chirapravati, who is the great-great-granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand, has published numerous books… Read more

Pitchaya Soomjinda พิชญา โสมจินดา is Associate Professor of Art History, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. A former student of Achan Piriya Krairiksh-- a pioneer in Thai arts studies -- at Thammasat University, he focuses on Khmer art and iconography, and on the premodern and transitional periods of… Read more

Prof. Ujjwala Chakradeo is the vice-chancellor of SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, India. An architect by trade, she has taught architecture in various institutions -- in particular serving as Head of the Department, Department of Architecture (1997-2002) and Department of House and Interior Design… Read more

Dr. Ujjwala Anand Palsuley (b 29 Apr, Maharashtra, India) is a Conservation Architect in the field for over 20 years as a Practitioner, Researcher, and Academician, who has worked on various World Heritage Sites for UNESCO’s nominations and conducted Workshops, Research & Projects in 16… Read more

Bala Devi Chandrashekar is a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher, and a professor of practice in Asian Performing Arts based in the USA, with an iinterdisciplinary approach involving performing, lecturing, teaching and intense research. Prof. Chandrashekar has performed ('Padmavati An Avatar' being… Read more

Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897, Posen-Wilda (then in Germany, now Poznan, Poland) – 31 July 1985, Wetzlar, Germany) was an avant-garde photographer, political activist, and avid traveler who beautifully captured Khmer temples in the 1960s before settling for a while in Tibet in her ongoing… 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