Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2025. "Christian Conversions and Dutch Colonialism in Minahasa in the Nineteenth Century." Archipel: Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien 109 (2025): 87-102.

2024. "Revisiting the Treaty between Spain and Sulu of 1836/37." Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society 6 (2): 284-310.  (Co-authored with Birgit Tremml-Werner and Eleonora Poggio).

2019. "The Dutch Archives and Maguindanao History in the 18th Century." Journal of Philippine Local History and Heritage 5 (1, February): 173–205.
2010. "Of Arms and Strategy: Piracy and the Netherlands Indies Government." Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 44 (1): 191–222. 

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

2023. “Leiden, Olanda at Pag-aaral ng Timog Silangang Asya.” In Banwa at Layag: Antolohiya ng mga Kwentong Paglalakbay ng mga Pilipino sa Ibayong Dagat. Edited by Axle Christien Tugano, 247-49. Ermita, Manila: Limbagang Pangkasaysayan.
2022. "A Confluence of Knowledge: The Murillo Velarde Map of the Philippines." In Maps That Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps, edited by Michiel van Groesen, Kasper van Ommen, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Alicia Schrikker, Martijn Storms, and Garrelt Verhoeven, 146-47. Leiden and Tielt: Leiden University and Lannoo Publishers. (Translated as: 2022. "Een samenkomst van kennis: De Murillo Velarde-Kaart van de Filippijnen." In Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven: 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten, edited by Michiel van Groesen, Kasper van Ommen, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Alicia Schrikker, Martijn Storms, and Garrelt Verhoeven, 146-47. Leiden and Tielt: Leiden University and Lannoo Publishers).

2021. "Tradition and local foreign policies." Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. International Institute for Asian Studies, 1 December.

2021. "Diplomatic influences from abroad." Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. International Institute for Asian Studies, 1 November.

2021. "Eurasian connections and the transformation of diplomatic practices." Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. International Institute for Asian Studies, 1 September.

2021. "Indigenous Agency.Diplomacy in Southeast Asia. International Institute for Asian Studies, 13 April. 

2020. “Introduction.”  In Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese, and Islamic Currents, c. 1500-1800, edited by Jos Gommans and Ariel Lopez, 9–23. Leiden: Leiden University Press (co-authors, Jos Gommans and Isaac Donoso).
2014. "Traversing the Malay-Indonesian World: An Interview with Leonard Andaya." Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 38 (1): 7–12 (Co-author: Kathryn Anderson Wellen).
2011. "Review of Hayden White: The Historical Imagination by Herman Paul." Social Science Diliman [University of the Philippines] 7 (2): 101–04.
2010. "Review of Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c.800-1830, 2 vols, by Victor Lieberman." Social Science Diliman [University of the Philippines] 6 (2): 100—03.