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Ang Choulean (Khmer: អាំង ជូលាន; born 1 January 1949) is a Cambodian anthropologist. He is a professor of historical anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts and formerly the director of the Department of culture of APSARA. He earned a bachelor's degree in Archaeology in 1974 from Royal University of Fine Arts and a PhD in Anthropology in 1982 from in France. In 2011 Ang Choulean won the Grand Prize of Fukuoka Prize, becoming the second Khmer person after Chheng Phon in 1997 to win the prize.