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

Lopez

JOURNAL ARTICLES

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).
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).
2018. "Editor's note." Philippine Social Sciences Review 70 (1): i–ii.
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.

BOOK

2020. Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese, and Islamic Currents, c. 1500–1800. Leiden: Leiden University Press. (Co-editor: Jos Gommans).

BOOK CHAPTERS

2020. "Towards Cross-Cultural Understanding: The Contributions of Toyota Motors Philippines to Culture." In Toyota in the Philippines: 30 Years and Beyond in Nation-Building, edited by Joefe B. Santarita, 187–220. Quezon City: Toyota Philippines and Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.

2018. "Kinship, Islam, and Raiding in Maguindanao, c. 1760-1780." In Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context, edited by Michael Charney and Kathryn Wellen, 73–99. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

2014. "An Exploration into the Political Background of the Maguindanao ‘piracy’ in the Early Eighteenth century." In Piracy and Surreptitious Activities in the Malay Archipelago and Adjacent Seas, 1600-1840, edited by Y. H. Teddy Sim, 105–20. Singapore: Springer.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in History, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2018
  • Research MA (MPhil) in History, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2012
  • Advanced BA in History, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2010
  • BA in History, University of the Philippines Diliman, 2007

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Indonesian Studies
  • Colonial and Maritime History
  • Philippine History
  • Southeast Asian History

COURSES TAUGHT

  • AS 253 Readings on Southeast Asia II - Island Southeast Asia
  • AS 202 The East-West Encounter
  • AS 250 Seminar on Southeast Asia
  • AS 298 Maritime Connections: Asia and the Pacific
  • PS 201 The Philippines in Asia and the Pacific
  • PS 204 Philippine Institutions and Social Movements
  • Kasaysayan (Kas) 1: Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas (Philippine History)
  • Kasaysayan (Kas) 2: Ang Asya at and Daigdig (Asia and the World)
  • Kas 100: Introduction to World Civilizations
  • Kas 116: Philippine Nationalism
  • SEA 30: Asian Emporiums: Networks of Culture and Trade in Southeast Asia