Sokha Seang

Seang Sokha is a Cambodian researcher at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Department of the History of Art and Archaeology (UK), specializing in Khmer art history, museology and cultural studies related to Southeast Asia.

He graduated in 2011 from Chulalongkorn University, South East Asian studies, Epigraphy Department (Bangkok, Thailand) with his MD thesis titled ​“Banteay Srey : a study of the temple and its builder”. the Department of Education at the National Museum of Cambodia. In 2026, he was a doctoral candidate at SOAS, London, examining the visual and iconographic
strategies through which Angkorian rulers articulated, legitimised, and projected political authority and sovereignty.

Seang Sokha is a member of the Editorial Board of the Cambodian cultural review Kerdomnel Khmer កេរដំណែលខ្មែរ (KDNK) founded in 2009 by historian Chanratana Chen. 

Recent Works

• [unpublished MD thesis] ​“Banteay Srey : a study of the temple and its builder”, Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations, 2011 [title in Thai: บันทายสรี : การศึกษาปราสาทและผู้สร้าง].
• “Evolution of the Permanent Display of Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture at the National Museum of Cambodia (1920 – 2007)”, in Art History 48 – 4, Sept. 2025: 818 – 850. (online restricted). 
• “When the god descends: Vishnu’s avatars and Khmer sovereignty”, in Avatar: Forms of Vishnu, Sydney, AGNSW, 2026: 117 – 160.