Dr. Ea Darith received his bachelor of arts degree from Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 1995, his master’s degree from Kyoto University in 2000, and his doctoral degree from Osaka Ohtani University in Japan in 2010. From 2000 to June 2021, he has been working at APSARA National Authority, teaching the History of Khmer Ceramics at the Royal University of Fine Arts, and teaching History of Cambodia and World History at Pannasatra University. He has coordinated a spectrum of diverse projects between APSARA National Authority and numerous international teams.

Darith’s main research interests focus on Khmer stoneware ceramics during the Angkor period from the ninth to fifteenth centuries. He has excavated more than ten stoneware kilns. In 2015, he took over all management of ceramics excavated from the Angkor area.

He was a Nalanda Sriwijaya Center Senior Visiting Fellow in Singapore in 2014–15 and has codirected previous joint research and field-school projects.

In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Cornell University, USA and to teach a collaborative seminar entitled Water: Art and Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Moreover, he also was invited by Yale, Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Universities to give lecture on Koh Ker’s Archaeological Research and Field School as well as sites management by APSARA Authority.

Since July 2021, He has been working at National Authority for Preah Vihear as Director of Department of Conservation and Archaeology.