Ang Choulean
Cambodian anthropologist
Ang Choulean | |
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![]() Ang Choulean in 2016 | |
Born | (1949-01-01)January 1, 1949 Kompong Khleang, Siem Reap |
Nationality | Cambodian |
Alma mater | Royal University of Fine Arts, École des Roches |
Awards | Fukuoka Prize (2011) |
Ang Choulean (Khmer: អាំង ជូលាន; born 1 January 1949) is a Cambodian anthropologist.
Education
Ang Choulean earned a bachelor's degree in Archaeology in 1974 from the Royal University of Fine Arts and a PhD in Anthropology in 1982 from École des Roches in France.[1]
Career
Ang Choulean is a professor of historical anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and former the director of the Department of Culture of APSARA.
Rewards
In 2011, Ang Choulean won the Grand Prize of Fukuoka Prize,[2] the second Khmer person after Chheng Phon in 1997 to win the prize.
Honours
References
External links
- Khmer Spiritual Beliefs Brought to Life in a New Novel
- A Cambodian Anthropologist Explains the Culinary Culture of Angkor
- Preserving Angkor: Interview with Ang Choulean