Martin Lerner, Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) for 31 years (1972-2003) is an art historian who became entangled in the controversy around Cambodian looted art for his connections with Douglas Latchford in the years 2000s-2010s. In a report dated 18… Read more

Henri Bernard (Bernard-Maître after 1948) (Chinese name Pei Huaxing 裴化行) (22 Oct 1889, Châlons-sur-Marne -- 3 Feb 1975, Gouvieux, France) was a French Jesuit priest, teacher and Orientalist, head of the Jesuit mission in Xianxian 献县 (Tientsin, Gangzhou, China) from 1924 to 1947. He was also a… Read more

Count (and Marquess) Edme Casimir Baudier de Croizier (10 Nov. 1848, Paris - 21 June 1921, Bayonne, France) was a French traveler, diplomat, minister and writer who wrote extensively on Khmer art and monuments.After a first journey to Turkey once his education completed, he served in the defence of… Read more

A Professor at the South and Southeast Asia Studies Departmen, University of California at Berkeley (USA), a writer and translator, Penny Edwards specializes in history of literature and Buddhist studies. In 2022-2023, she was granted a sabbatical to work on Ephemeral Angkor, a cinematic and… Read more

After obtaining a PhD in archaeology at Paris IV Sorbonne on the Buddhist āśrama of Prasat Ong Mong, Chea Socheat became co-director of the excavation campaigns of the Yaśodharāśrama research programme. He supervises the post-excavation work, manages all cartographic and topographic data and… Read more

Tegan Hall is a researcher specializing in Biogeography. Geography, Palaeoecology and Archaeology, working with the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia. In 2019, she published in PNAS 'Geoarchaeological evidence from Angkor, Cambodia, reveals a gradual decline rather than a… Read more

Pelle Wijker is a PhD candidate in archaeology at Sorbonne Paris and CNRS, specializing in the comparative study of Khmer and Maya civilizations ('Urbanisme Khmer et Maya : analyse comparative des modèles de peuplement à l'aide d'ensemble de données Lidar'). Read more

Dr. Prasanna Kumar (P.K.) Acharya (1890, Calcutta, India -- ) was an Indian scholar, translator, Sanskritist and historian of architecture who published the first complete edition and translation into English of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra (मानसार शिल्पशस्त्र), or Manasara, the ancient Indian… Read more

One of India’s greatest translators and Sanskritists, Manmatha Nath Dutt (Shastri) (1855, Calcutta, India -1912, Baranagar, India) translated from Sanskrit to English important works such as Valmiki Ramayana (sequentially from 1892 to 1894), Markandeya Purana (1896), Bhagavata Purana (1896), Vishnu… Read more

Albert Savine (20 Apr 1859, Aigues-Mortes, France -- 6 June 1927, Boulogne-Billancourt, was a French writer, journalist, translator, publisher and penpusher who often went after lucrative yet reprehensible assignments -- a series of blatantly antisemitic pamphlets, for instance -- but died in… Read more

Dr. EA Darith is a Cambodian researcher, professor of Khmer history and Director of the Department of Conservation and Archaeology.at the National Authority for Preah Vihear since June 2021. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 1995, his… Read more

Rotanak Ros, Chef Nak, is a Cambodian chef who published several books on her country's cuisine, and is active on social media channel. Late 2022, she launched her Luxury Home Dining experience in Pekluong, not far from downtown Phnom Penh on the bank of the Mekong River.Chef Nak's website:… Read more

Samdech Sangha Rāja Jhotañāno Chuon Nath សម្តេចព្រះសង្ឃរាជ ជួន ណាត ជោតញ្ញាណោ (13 March 1883, Kong Pisei, Kampong Speu, French Cambodia - 25 Sep 1969, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a Cambodian monk, Gana Mahanikaya [Supreme Patriarch] of Cambodia's Mahanikaya Sangha, an educator and a linguist who… Read more

ผกาวรรณ เดชเทวพร Phakawan Dechthewaporn is a manuscript curator and a literature and arts editor at the Thailand Fine Arts Department. Read more

A USA-based Vietnamese blogger, independent researcher and gifted polymath, Tao Babe likes to share online astonishingly well-documented historic and metaphysical essays, wise considerations on her status of citizen of the world with a strong sense of identity, and an ongoing questioning of… Read more

Émile Gsell (30 Dec 1838, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, France - 16 Oct. 1879, Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh Ville,Vietnam) was a self-taught French photographer who produced among the earliest photographs of Angkor Wat when he joined the Mekong Exploration Expedition led by Ernest Doudart de Lagrée… Read more

Joanna S. Duong is an independent Cambodian researcher who escaped the civil war in 1974, emigrated to the US, and came back to Cambodia to launch a party promoting women' s rights in the 1998 elections. Her MD thesis in 2002 dealt with The Role of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodian Society… Read more

Johannes Bronkhorst (born 17 July 1946, Schiedam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism. Emeritus professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at University of Lausanne (he retired in 2011), he studied Mathematics, Physics, and… Read more

Amina Ahmed Kar আমিনা আহমেদ কর (20 Feb 1930, Calcutta, British India -21 Jan 1994, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India) was a talented art historian and one of the first women abstract artists in India. The daughter of a famous dentist surgeon and Bengali politician, she was a precocious and brilliant… Read more

Dr Devangana Desai (1937, Bombay (now Mumbai)) is a prominent historian and researcher of early Indian art, in particular the iconic and narrative representations of female and male principles, whose essays on erotic art have been proven to be groundbreaking. Born in a Vaishnava family, she… Read more