Author, Educator
Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន
Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.
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Educator, Master practitioner
Em Theay
Master of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia who taught Khmer classical dance and traditional singing to postwar generations.
Educator, Master practitioner
Hun Pen
Cambodian classical dancer in the neang (female) role, choreographer and researcher of the post-1979 dance revival.
Educator, Master practitioner
Ith Pen
Cambodian bokator master who founded a school in Kampot and later documented the art's techniques.
Chef, Educator
Kethana Dunnet
Cambodian chef and restaurateur who founded The Sugar Palm and teaches traditional home-style Khmer cooking.
Educator, Master practitioner
Kong Nay គង់ ណៃ
Cambodian chapei dang veng master singer and teacher recognised as a national living human treasure.
Educator, Master practitioner
Norodom Buppha Devi នរោត្តម បុប្ផាទេវី
Cambodian classical dancer, choreographer and cultural administrator who led the postwar revival of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia.
Educator, Musician
Patrick Kersalé
French ethnomusicologist whose Sounds of Angkor project reconstructs Khmer instruments documented in temple reliefs.
Educator, Master practitioner
San Kim Sean សាន គឹមស៊ាន
Cambodian martial arts grandmaster who led the postwar revival of bokator and founded its national federation.
Educator, Tradition bearer
Sisowath Kossamak ស៊ីសុវត្ថិ កុសុមៈ
Cambodian queen credited with choreographing the modern apsara dance and sustaining the royal dance troupe.
Educator, Master practitioner
Voan Savay វ័ន សាវ៉ៃ
Khmer classical dancer and teacher who carried the royal dance repertoire through the refugee camps and into diaspora schools.
Author, Educator
Kim Echlin
Canadian novelist whose novel The Disappeared is set in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Educator
David Smyth
British scholar of Thai and Cambodian who wrote the Routledge Colloquial Cambodian course.
Author, Educator
Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
Author, Educator
Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
Author, Educator
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
Author, Educator
Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
Author, Educator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Author, Educator
Erik W. Davis
American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.
Author, Educator
Franklin E. Huffman
American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.
Author, Educator
George Chigas
Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Educator, Filmmaker
Julie Mallozzi
Julie Mallozzi is a Boston-based documentary filmmaker and teacher who directed Monkey Dance.
Author, Educator
Martha E. Kendall
American author and community college educator who co-wrote Nawuth Keat's Khmer Rouge survival memoir.
Author, Educator
Monica Sok
Cambodian American poet whose work addresses the Khmer Rouge period and its inheritance.
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