Arts and media

Creators

Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.

Watercolor of an artist studio with an easel, a film camera, a chapei lute and a typewriter
Illustration inspired by an arts school in Battambang.

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Loung Ung

A Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.

Chef Nak

A Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.

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12 creators

Oral historian, Scholar

Theresa de Langis

Cambodia

Scholar of women, peace and security who leads the Cambodian Women's Oral History Project.

Filmmaker, Journalist

Thet Sambath

Cambodia

Thet Sambath is a Cambodian investigative journalist and co-director of the documentary Enemies of the People.

Author, Oral historian

Chanrithy Him

United States

Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.

Author, Educator

Christine Su

United States

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

United States

Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.

Journalist, Oral historian

Dith Pran ឌិត ប្រន

United States

Cambodian photojournalist and interpreter who collected and edited survivor testimony from the Khmer Rouge period.

Author, Educator

George Chigas

United States

Scholar of Cambodian literature and culture who recorded oral histories and photographs of Cambodian American life in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Oral historian, Photographer

Michael Edward Bell

United States

Folklorist and fieldworker who documented Cambodian community life in Lowell, Massachusetts for the Lowell Folklife Project.

Author, Oral historian

Nawuth Keat

United States

Cambodian survivor of the Khmer Rouge period who told his life story in the memoir Alive in the Killing Fields.

Author, Educator

Sue J. Kim

United States

Professor of English who directs the Southeast Asian Digital Archive and its oral history collecting in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Author, Oral historian

Demaz Tep Baker

Author of retellings of Cambodian folk tales and legends.

Filmmaker, Oral historian

Socheata Poeuv

Socheata Poeuv is a documentary director and founder of the oral-history project Khmer Legacies.

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