Emmanuel David is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Villanova University and affiliate faculty in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Cultural Studies Program. He is a qualitative sociologist with specializations in gender, culture, and inequality, as well as in microsociology and the social dimensions of disasters. He is coeditor (with Elaine Enarson) of the interdisciplinary anthology The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).

His research on the gendered dimensions of Hurricane Katrina has appeared in several journals and books. He has investigated the ways in which disaster-related emergent groups, including those led by women, have provided important social and public services usually assumed by the state in non-crisis times. He has also examined how women’s post-disaster labor is linked to broader social and economic changes such as state restructuring, neoliberal reform, and the privatization of post-disaster recovery.

His new project investigates gender and postcolonial identity formation at global outsourcing sites in the Philippines. In 2009, he began data collection as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Third World Studies Center at the University of the Philippines.