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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14 creators

Author, Educator

Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន

Cambodia

Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.

Educator, Master practitioner

Hun Pen

Cambodia

Cambodian classical dancer in the neang (female) role, choreographer and researcher of the post-1979 dance revival.

Educator, Musician

Patrick Kersalé

Cambodia

French ethnomusicologist whose Sounds of Angkor project reconstructs Khmer instruments documented in temple reliefs.

Oral historian, Scholar

Theresa de Langis

Cambodia

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

Author, Educator

David Smyth

United Kingdom

British scholar of Thai and Cambodian who wrote the Routledge Colloquial Cambodian course.

Author, Educator

Bunkong Tuon

United States

Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.

Author, Educator

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

United States

Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.

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.

Author, Educator

Erik W. Davis

United States

American scholar of Buddhism and professor of religious studies at Macalester College whose research focuses on Cambodia.

Author, Educator

Franklin E. Huffman

United States

American linguist of Southeast Asian languages who wrote the standard Yale series of Cambodian language textbooks and readers.

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, Educator

Sue J. Kim

United States

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

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