Geographical Areas

South Asia

Hugo DAVID, Lecturer (Pondicherry)
Philosophy and philology (sankrit)

Valérie GILLET, Lecturer (Paris)
Art History - India

Dominic GOODALL, Professor (Pondicherry)
Sanskrit Philology

Jacques LEIDER, Lecturer (Bankok/Yangon)
Burmese History and Historiography

Charlotte SCHMID, Professor (Paris)
Art History - India

Vincent TOURNIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Indian Buddhism

Southeast Asia

Éric BOURDONNEAU, Lecturer (Paris) 
Cambodian Archaeology

Bruno BRUGUIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Archaeology

Olivier DE BERNON, Professor (Paris)
Literature

Véronique DEGROOT, Lecturer (Indonésie, Jakarta)
History and archaeology of Indonesia

Yves GOUDINEAU, Professor (Chiang Mai) 
Comparative Southeast Asian Ethnology

Arlo GRIFFITHS, Professor (Paris)
History of Southeast Asia

Andrew HARDY, Professor (Hanoi)
Modern and Contemporary History of Vietnam

Christine HAWIXBROCK, Visiting Scholars (Paris)
Archaeology of Laos

François LAGIRARDE, Lecturer (Paris) 
Theravada Buddhism

Philippe LE FAILLER, Lecturer (Paris)
History of Contemporary Vietnam

Michel LORRILLARD, Lecturer (Vientiane)
History and Epigraphy of Laos

Daniel PERRET, Professor (Kuaka Kumpur/Jakarta)
Archaeology of the Malay World

Bertrand PORTE, Head of the Restoration Workshop, National Museum (Phnom Penh)

Christophe POTTIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Architecture

Catherine SCHEER, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Anthropology

Dominique SOUTIF, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Archaeology

Olivier TESSIER, Lecturer (Hanoi)
Vietnamese Anthropology

Brice VINCENT, Lecturer (Paris)
Archaeo-metallurgy, Southesat Asian Archaeology

East Asia

Alain ARRAULT, Professor (Paris)
Intellectual History of China

Michela BUSSOTTI, Professor (Paris)
Cultural History of China, History of Books in China

Paola CALANCA, Lecturer (Paris)
Chinese Maritime History

Elisabeth CHABANOL, Lecturer (Seoul)
Korean Art History

Guillaume DUTOURNIER, Lecturer (Beijing)
Anthropology and history of China

Luca GABBIANI, Lecturer (Paris)
Modern History of China

Benoît JACQUET, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Fabienne JAGOU, Lecturer (Paris)
Political History of Sino-Tibetan Relations

François LACHAUD, Professor (Tokyo)
Buddhism and Japanese Civilization

Christophe MARQUET, Professor (Paris)
Japanese Art History

Frank MUYARD, Visiting Scholars (Taipei)
Chinese History

Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Franciscus VERELLEN, Professor (Hong Kong)
History of Taoism

EFEO News
Direction of Resources
Paris, France, 21 September 2025
Reporting to the Director General of Administration, , you will be responsible for managing the Resources Department. You will manage the activity of the support functions and implement the public policies in your field, with a view to efficiency and innovation. You will also perform the duties of Prevention Adviser.

Application deadline extended to 21 September 2025.

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Research project support manager
Paris, France, 20 September 2025
The research project support manager will support the EFEO's teacher-researchers in preparing responses to calls for proposals in the field of research in the humanities and social sciences, at the national (ANR, etc.), European (ERC, etc.) and international levels.

Application deadline: September, 20, 2025.

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Signing of multi-year contracts for EFEs and the Réseau des EFE
Paris, France, 15 September 2025
On 15 September, the Réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger, in partnership with the Ministry manager of Higher Education and Research, organised a morning of reflection in Paris on: "Les Écoles françaises à l’étranger et les SHS : innovation, partenariats stratégiques et rayonnement international".

The morning concluded with the signing of multi-year contracts between Écoles françaises à l’étranger and the Réseau des EFE.
New Publication
Pondicherry,

A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga
An Edition and Translation of the Pune Manuscript of the Haṭhābhyās

By Jason BIRCH, Mark SINGLETON and James MALLINSON 

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New Publication
Pondicherry,

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