Publications

Travelers, Dreamers, Adventurers and Agitators: Common Worlds and Uncommon Lives Across Nineteenth–Century Cambodia

A fascinating exploration of lesser known, unofficial documents and testimonies on pre-colonial Cambodia and the French push for colonization.

Cambodia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: A quest for survival, 1840-1863

The troubled years of mid-19th century, when Cambodia was struggling to survive as a nation.

Travels in Siam and Cambodia

"The temple stands solitary and alone in the jungle, in too perfect order to be called a ruin, a relic of a race far ahead in all arts and sciences."

Notes on the Antiquities and Natural History of Cambodia

Kauṇḍinya, Preah Thaong, and the "Nāgī Somā": Some Aspects of a Cambodian Legend

A summary of the many versions of the Kaundinya-Neang Neak story, the founding legend of Cambodia.

Report On the Kingdom of Cambodia, the ruins of Angkor and the Kingdom of Siam

Notations on Angkor and Cambodian resources by an enigmatic traveler-adventurer, J.G.G. d'Aubain.

Cambodian Krishna at the Cleveland Museum: A Digital Feast

“Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain’'.

"Angkor Wat" by Allen Ginsberg

A literary monument to Angkor, "Kingdom Come or Kingdom Yore".

The Overland Trading Route between the Khmer Empire and the Champa Kingdoms

The land routes linking two neighbors, foes and trade partners, and the mutual influences in Khmer and Cham cultures.

November 1967: Jackie K. Goes To Cambodia

As a Netflix movie will soon re-create this moment, we revisit a visit surrounded with political tragedy, romance and desperation, and the looming Vietnam War.

Conflicting Conceptions of the State: Siam, France and Vietnam in the Late Nineteenth Century

Political entities and terminology in early and pre-modern Southeast Asia

The Chau Say Tevoda and Ta Keo Restoration Projects

Two major restauration projects in Angkor Thom led by the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH)

Revisiting a Hypothesis: Tracing Early Buddhist Heritage in Central-Eastern Europe

The similarities between the Szekler gates, predominantly found in Transylvania in the Carpathian Basin. and the sacred Asian gate building tradition.

The (Murky) Origin of the Tokyo National Museum Collection of Khmer Art

Ancient Khmer sculptures as "political gifting": the controversial case of cultural exchanges between Colonial France and Imperial Japan during World War II.

The Global Hunt for Looted Khmer Art Treasures

As restituted ancient artworks kept in museums worldwide are being flown back to Cambodia, the controversy around Douglas Latchford collection deepens.

Notes on Brahmanic Gods in Theravadin Cambodia

A lively and perceptive exploration of Cambodian syncretisme from ancient times

Avec le Marechal Joffre en Extreme-Orient: Indochine et Siam | Marshal Joffre's visit to Indochina, Dec. 1921

The Origins of the Sukhodaya (Sukhot'ai) Art

A well-balanced study on cultural and artistic exchanges around ancient Southeast Asia, summarizing the author's original view on the Indianization process

Chinese ceramics in SE Asia: Methodological considerations (Translation)

An English translation of Bernard-Philippe Groslier's notes on Chinese ceramics in Southeast Asia

Indochina, ‘Greater France’ and the 1931 Colonial Exhibition in Paris