Her publications include A Mountain of Difference: The Lumad in Early Colonial Mindanao (Cornell SEAP, 2013), and more recently, “Custom and Citizenship in the Philippine Uplands,” in Citizenship and Democratization in Postcolonial Southeast Asia, edited by Henk Schulte Nordholt, et al. (Brill, 2016). An anthropologist by training, her current field research focuses on the mythology and practice of indigenous governance among Higaunon Lumads in present-day Mindanao.