KRISTOFFER R. ESQUEJO is Assistant Professor 3 at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He was a recipient of NCCA Young Historian’s Prize (2011), CSSP Junior Faculty Writing Fellowship (2011), Aboitiz Foundation Research Grant on the Galleon Trade in Mexico (2011-2012), and UP Diliman Centennial Faculty Grant (2018). His interests include the local history and religious history.