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

ARTICLES & ESSAYS

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.