EMMANUEL DAVID
Department of Women and Gender Studies
University of Colorado Boulder
Hazel Gates Woodruff Cottage, UCB 246
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0246
emmanuel.david@colorado.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019-Present Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Affiliate Appointments: Center for Asian Studies; Center of the American West;
Department of Ethnic Studies; Department of Sociology
2013-2019 Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2010–12 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Villanova University
EDUCATION
2009 PhD with distinction, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
2003 BA cum laude, Sociology and Communications, Loyola University New Orleans
AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING
Queer Asia; Queer of Color Critique; Gender & Sexuality; Transgender Studies; Political Economy; Transnational Labor; Global Sociology; Ethnography and Qualitative Methods; Philippine Studies
RESEARCH
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2024. David, Emmanuel and Yumi Janairo Roth. “Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.” Journal of Asian American Studies 27(1): 1-34. *2025 Vicki L. Ruiz Award, Western History Association, for best article on race in the North American West.
2024. David, Emmanuel. “Transpinay: Genealogy of a Term.” Sexualities 27(1-2): 77-93. Special Issue on “Queer Asia.” *2023 Distinguished Article Award, American Sociological Association’s section on Sexualities.
2023. David, Emmanuel. “Sonic Transness: Christine Jorgensen’s Vocal Performance in Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy).” American Quarterly 75(1): 75-102.
2022. David, Emmanuel. “The Transgender Touch: On the Handmade Sculptures of Frankie Toan.” ASAP/Journal 7(1): 171-198.
2021 . David, Emmanuel. “Sari-Sari Style: Tropical Excess and an Asian Sense of Brown in Wawi Navarroza’s Photographs.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 7(2): 2-18. Special Issue on “Digital Asias.”
2018. David, Emmanuel. “Transgender Archipelagos.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 5(3):332-354. Special issue: “Trans-in-Asia, Asia-in-Trans.” *2019 Best Article Award, Society for Queer Asian Studies.
2018. David, Emmanuel and Christian Joy P. Cruz. “Deaf Turns, Beki Turns, Transformations: Toward New Forms of Deaf Queer Sociality.” Feminist Formations 30(1): 91-116. Special issue: “Queer/Crip Contagions.”
2018. David, Emmanuel and Christian Joy P. Cruz. “Big, Bakla, and Beautiful: Transformations on a Manila Pageant Stage.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 46(1-2): 29-45. Special issue on “Beauty.”
2017 . David, Emmanuel. “Capital T: Trans Visibility, Corporate Capitalism, and Commodity Culture.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 4(1): 28-44. Special issue: “Trans-Political Economy.”
2016. David, Emmanuel. “Outsourced Heroes and Queer Incorporations: Labor Brokerage and the Politics of Inclusion in the Philippine Call Center Industry.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 22(3): 381-408.
2015. David, Emmanuel. “The Sexual Fields of Empire: On the Ethnosexual Frontiers of Global Outsourcing.” Radical History Review, 123 (October): 115-143. Special issue on “Sexing Empire.”
2015. David, Emmanuel. “Purple-Collar Labor: Transgender Workers and Queer Value at Global Call Centers in the Philippines.” Gender & Society 29(2): 169-194. Lead Article.
2010. David, Emmanuel. “‘Studying Up’ on Women and Disaster: An Elite Sustained Women’s Group following Hurricane Katrina.” International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 28(2):246-269.
2008. David, Emmanuel. “Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm following Hurricane Katrina.” NWSA Journal 20(3):138-162. Special issue: “New Orleans: The Gender Politics of Place and Displacement.” –Reprinted (2010) in Being and Becoming Visible: Women, Performance, and Visual Culture. Edited by Olga Mesropova & Stacey Weber-Feve. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Monograph
2017 . David, Emmanuel. Women of the Storm: Civic Activism After Hurricane Katrina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Peer-Reviewed Anthology
2012 . The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster. Edited with Elaine Enarson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter
2006. David, Emmanuel. “Emergent Behavior and Groups in Postdisaster New Orleans: Notes on Practices of Organized Resistance.” Pp. 235-262 in Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado.
Book Chapters
2011. Hunter, Lori and Emmanuel David. “Displacement, Climate Change, and Gender.” Pp. 306-330 in Migration and Climate Change. Edited by Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud, and Paul de Guchteneire. New York: UNESCO and Cambridge University Press.
2010. David, Emmanuel. “Redistribution of Responsibility: The Gendered Division of Labor and Politics of a Post-Disaster Cleanup Project.” Pp. 391-411 in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, 2nd edition. Edited by Kristin Bates and Richelle Swan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2007. David, Emmanuel. “Signs of Resistance: Marking Public Space through a Renewed Cultural Activism.” Pp. 225-254 in Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation. Edited by Gregory C. Stanczak. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Journal Article (Unrefereed)
2018. David, Emmanuel. “The Art of Trans Politics.” Contexts 17(1):82-85.
Editorial Work (Reissues and Special Issues)
2025. Concepcion, M. de Gracia, Azucena (Centennial edition). Biographical introduction by Emmanuel David. New York: Persea Books.
2007. David, Emmanuel and Edward J. McCaughan (with coauthored introduction). Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order 34(1). Special Issue: Art, Identity, and Social Change.
2006. David, Emmanuel and Edward J. McCaughan (with coauthored introduction). Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order 33(2). Special Issue: Art, Power, and Social Change.
TEACHING
Courses Taught at CU Boulder (2013-present)
Introduction to LGBT Studies; Women of Color & Activism; Gender, Race, and Class in a Global Context; Queer Theories; Critical Inquiries in Transgender Studies; Queer Theories (graduate)
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2022-3. Fellows’ Fellowship, National Humanities Center. Nine-month residential fellowship at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
2019. Best Should Teach Gold Award for excellence in teaching, Graduate Teacher Program in coordination with the School of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder
2012-3. Fulbright Scholar, East Asia and the Pacific Research Grant on U.S.-Philippine Relations (Research Award in Sociology)
2009. Honorable Mention. Samuel H. Prince Dissertation Award, International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Disasters
2005. Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant, funded by Natural Hazards Center under the Center’s National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Quick Response Program.