Dr. Phanindranath Bose or Phanindra Nath Bose ফণীন্দ্রনাথ বসু (1896-1932) was a Bengali writer and historian, professor of history at the Visva-Bharati University founded by Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan (now Shantiniketan, West Bengal)  who wrote about Indian influences in Cambodia, Champa… Read more

Walter Aschmoneit (b. 1941) is a global historian and development expert who worked in Cambodia during the crucial phase of reconstruction, from 1994 to 1998.He studied political science, history, agricultural economics of the Third World and Chinese language at Heidelberg University, Hanover… Read more

Prof. Daniel George Edward Hall (17 Nov. 1891, Hertfordshire, England - 12 Oct. 1979, Hitchin, UK) was a British historian, writer, emeritus professor of University of London, visiting professor at Cornell University (USA), a specialist of the history of Burma [Myanmar], who expanded his research… Read more

Dr. Dineshchandra (D.C.) Sircar [also D.C. Sarkar] (1907, Krishnanagar, Bengal –1985, Calcutta [Kolkata], India), was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, Chief Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey of India (1949–1962), Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and… Read more

Paul Léon Joseph Mus (1 June 1902, Bourges, France - 9 Aug. 1969, Murs, France) was a French researcher on Southeast Asian history who pioneered an approach combining social sciences, archaeological and ethnographical research, textual studies, and "championed a translocal approach that extended… Read more

Sylvain Lévi ( 28 March 1863, Paris, France - 30 Oct. 1935, Paris, France) was a famed French orientalist and indologist, an influentation professor of Sanskrit and Indian religion at Paris École pratique des hautes études and at the Collège de France, and a promoter of cultural exchanges between… Read more

Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin (1946, Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) – 14 Aug. 2021, Hawai'i, USA) was a Burmese American historian and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, a specialist in early Southeast Asian and Burmese history.His parents - with brother John and sister… Read more

Henri-Antoine-Marie-Joseph-Anatole Brenier (16 Aug 1867, Shanghai, China - 18 Feb 1962, Marseille, France) was a French journalist, economist, explorer, colonial administrator, merchant and writer who authored several studies on commercial exchanges with and from French Indochina in the 1890s,… Read more

Paul Émile Marie Réveillère or Paul Branda or Paul Brandat [pen name] (27 May 1829, Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Britanny, France - 26 Jan 1908, Brest), was a French Navy officer, and a writer and journalist best known under the pen names of Paul Branda or Brandat.After studying at École navale in… Read more

Khing Hoc Dy ឃីង ហុកឌី (b. 13 June 1945, Chheu Teal Village, Kampong Chen Tbong Commune, Stong District, Kampong Thom Province) is a Cambodian professor of literature and humanities who authored several reference studies on Cambodian literature history, and a founding member of the Royal Academy of… Read more

Vong Sotheara វង់ សុធារ៉ា (b. Kompong Cham province) is Head of the Department of History and Professor of Khmer Inscriptions and Cambodia-Southeast Asian history at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia.With a post-graduate diploma in Tourism Development (RUPP, 2002), a MA in Tourism… 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

Francis Patrick "Frank" McGloin (22 Feb 1846, Gort, County Galway, Ireland - 30 Aug 1921, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA) was an Irish-American jurist, editor and writer whose one and only novel, Norodom, King of Cambodia: A Romance of the East (1882) dealt with Cambodia and its history.A… Read more

Dr Antonio de Morga Sanchez Garay (29 Nov 1559, Sevilla, Spain - 21 July 1636, Cumbayá Valley near Quito, Viceroyalty of Peru, now in Ecuador) was a Spanish historian, lawyer and colonial official for 43 years in the Philippines, New Spain, and Peru, who stayed in Manila from 1594 to 1604, sailed… Read more

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895) was an English barrister and politican, the auhor of a two-volume History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire (1879) that was lauded as "admirable" at the time for its… Read more

Stephen A. Murphy is historian of art and archaeology specializing in early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He particularly studies the period spanning the… Read more

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (5 March 1866, Roehamption, London – 18 Dec 1941, Roehamption) was a British colonial administrator and a writer who devoted a novel, The Downfall of the Gods, to Angkor and the ancient Khmer civilization. The son of a distinguished British Army general, he opted to join… Read more

Khun Samen [or Samén] ឃុន សាម៉េន (b. 9 Sept. 1948, Prey Veng Province) is a Cambodian Professor of Khmer Art History and Museology who was the director of Phnom Penh National Museum (now National Museum of Cambodia) from 1996 to 2007, acting as a curator of the collection before. He was succeeded… Read more

René Morizon was a French civil administrator who wrote a monography on Cambodia for the Paris 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale. His doctorate thesis dealt with La Province cambodgienne de Pursat [The Cambodian province of Pursat] (Université de Paris, Faculté des lettres, 1936). This work… Read more

Ulrich Theobald is a German researcher on Chinese history specializing in the economic, military, and administrative history of late imperial China, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany since 2016.One of his current projects investigates the impact of… Read more