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The Center for Khmer Studies encourages foreign scholars working in Cambodia to collaborate with local scholars in order to develop Cambodian human resources and transfer knowledge and expertise and to develop a strong partnership between Cambodian scholars and their international counterparts.

CKS first began to develop its research and training programs in 2001. Three thematic research programs were developed in specific priority fields for Cambodians. These were architecture, anthropology and Pre-Angkor archaeology, with all funding provided from the Rockefeller Foundation. CKS also developed vocational training on Culture Resource Management, with funding from the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts (Monument Trust and Linbury Trust), United Kingdom, and a research training project under the Junior Fellowship Program, with support from the Toyota Foundation, Tokyo.

Drawing from these experiences, CKS is developing a new approach with its research and training activities involving direct collaboration with Cambodian universities and universities overseas. This approach is based in the CKS project 'Building Institutional Capacity in Higher Education', with financial assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Toyota Foundation and encourages the training and field-based experience of young Cambodian researchers to further develop their skills.   

Exhibitions, training courses, workshops and seminars have also taken place. See Events section

CKS Programs

 

Junior Faculty Training Program
 This program comprises a series of six month semester sessions of workshops and seminars addressing topical issues in the humanities and social sciences. The sessions are geared toward Cambodian junior faculty and researchers, and seeks to enhance their general knowledge and academic and research skills.

 

Economic Growth, Social Inequality and Environmental Change in Cambodia
The Anthropology Department of the University of Chicago, in collaboration with CKS, will examine the interactions between people and the environment in the northwestern part of the country, home of the Angkor temple complex.

 

Initiating Urban Cultural Studies in Cambodia
In collaboration with the New School University's Graduate Program in International Affairs, through the Institute of Cultural Entrepreneurship, this project provides opportunities for innovative cultural studies of the contemporary urban landscape in Phnom Penh, while mentoring young Cambodian researchers in this field, consistent with CKS’s core objective of capacity building and training.
 

Sre Ampil Archaeological Project
The Sre Ampil Archaeological Project combines archaeological excavation, the construction of a museum and cultural resource management to increase the archaeological knowledge about this endangered site as well as to involve the community in issues of preservation of their cultural heritage.

 

Translation Capacity Building

The Translation Capacity Building program trains and mentors a core team of translators through a circular feedback and review process, translating materials with which they are already familiar.  Translators trained through this program are then selected to take part in larger CKS translation projects

 
 

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