2019- Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Co-Director, LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Asian Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Values and Social Policy
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Ethnic Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology
Research Affiliate, Natural Hazards Center
2013-19 Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
2010-12 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Villanova University
2009 PhD with distinction, Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
2007 Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
2003 BA cum laude, Sociology and Communications (photojournalism), Loyola University of New Orleans
2002 Certificate of Study, Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society, University of Amsterdam
Transgender Studies; Queer of Color Critique; Gender & Sexuality; Political Economy; Transnational Labor; Global Sociology; Ethnography & Qualitative Methods
Introduction to LGBT Studies; Women of Color & Activism; Gender, Race, and Class in a Global Context; Queer Theory; Critical Inquiries in Transgender Studies; Queer Theory (graduate)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
**** David, Emmanuel. "Sonic Transness: Christine Jorgensen's Vocal Performance in Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy)." American
Quarterly (forthcoming 2023).
2022 David, Emmanuel. "The Transgender Touch: On the Handmade Sculptures of Frankie Toan." ASAP/Journal 7(1):171-198.
2021 David, Emmanuel. "Transpinay: Genealogy of a Term." Sexualities. Special issue on "Queer Asia." Advance online publication:
https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211024563.
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.
2018 David, Emmanuel. "Transgender Archipelagos." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 5(3): 332-354. Special issue on "Trans-in-
Asia, Asia-in-Trans."
–2019 Best Article Award, Society for Queer Asian Studies, an affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
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."
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 on "Queer/Crip Contagions."
2017 David, Emmanuel. "Capital T: Trans Visibility, Corporate Capitalism, and Commodity Culture." TSQ: Transgender Studies
Quarterly 4(1):28-44. Special issue on "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
123:115-143.
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.
–Reprinted (2010) in Being and Becoming Visible: Women, Performance, and Visual Culture (A Feminist Formations Reader).
Edited by Olga Mesropova and Stacey Weber Feve. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Journal Article (Unrefereed)
2018 David, Emmanuel. “The Art of Trans Politics.” Contexts 17(1):82-85.
Book
2017 David, Emmanuel. Women of the Storm: Civic Activism After Hurricane Katrina. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
–Reviewed by Tim Haney in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (April 2018)
–Reviewed by Sajal Roy in Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 27, No. 5 (May 2018): 607-608.
–Reviewed by Christopher Manning in Louisiana History, Vol. LIX, No. 3 (Fall 2018): 486-489.
–Reviewed by Morgan C. Matthews in Gender & Society, Vol. 33, No. 1 (February 2019):159-160.
–Reviewed by Deanne L. Stephens in Journal of Southern History, Vol. 85, No. 1 (February 2019): 240-241.
–Reviewed by Rebecca Lauck Cleary in The Southern Register (Winter 2019): 44-45.
–Reviewed by Lindsey Dillon in Contemporary Sociology 48(2): 156-158.
Edited Book
2012 The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster. Edited with Elaine Enarson. Nashville,
TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
–One of CHOICE Magazine’s 2011-2012 Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates
–Reviewed by Beth Herstein in New Orleans Living Magazine (May 2012).
–Reviewed in Association for Human Resources Management in International Organizations Online Book Reviews (June 2012).
–Reviewed by Mike Johnson in People in Aid (July 2012).
–Reviewed by M.M. Ferree in Choice Review, Vol. 49, No. 11 (August 2012).
–Reviewed by Elizabeth Fussell in Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (September/October 2012):28-30.
–Reviewed by Sarah Bradshaw in Gender & Development, Vol. 20, No. 3 (November 2012): 633-635.
–Reviewed in Natural Hazards Observer, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (March 2013):19.
–Reviewed by Kristen Barber in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Spring 2013):763-767.
–Reviewed by Lynn Weber in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 42, No. 5 (August 2013):732-735.
–Reviewed by David Ponton III in Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXXIX, No. 4 (November 2013): 943-946.
–Reviewed by Kimberly J. McGann in Gender & Society, Vol. 27, No. 6 (December 2013): 943-946.
–Reviewed by Carl L. Bankston III in Sociological Forum, Vol. 28, No. 4 (December 2013): 888-899.
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. Special Publication #40. Boulder, CO. Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado.
Book Chapters
2011 Hunter, Lori and Emmanuel David. "Displacement, Climate Change, and Gender." Coauthored with Lori M. Hunter. 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 Clean-Up
Project." Pp. 391-411 in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, second edition. Edited by Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. 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.
Edited Volumes
2007 Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order 34(1). Special Issue on Art, Identity, and Social Change.
Coedited with Edward J. McCaughan, with a coauthored introduction.
2006 Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order 33(2). Special Issue on Art, Power, and Social Change.
Coedited with Edward J. McCaughan, with a coauthored introduction.
Book Reviews
2020 Review of Marco Z. Garrido, The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Social Forces, soaa106, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa106
2020 “Fantasies of Elsewhere: Notes on Provincializing Transgender.” Review of Aren Z. Aizura, Mobile Subjects: Transnational
Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7(1):132-139.
2013 Review of Robyn Magalit Rodriquez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2010. International Sociology 28(2):215-218.
2012 Review of Sujutha Fernandes, Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chavez's Venezuela. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2010. Journal of Peace and Justice Studies 22(1):161-163.
Public Scholarship
2015 David, Emmanuel. "The Purple Collar: Dynamics of Trans-Inclusion In The Philippines’ Call Center Industry." Gender & Society
blog. Published January 15, 2015 at https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/the-purple-collar/
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 Boulder
2019 Arts & Sciences Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado Boulder
2018 Center for the Humanities and the Arts Funding for Individual Projects in the Arts and Humanities
2018 Center for Asian Studies, Seminar Series Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
2017 Arts & Sciences Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado Boulder
2015 Center for Asian Studies Seminar Series Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
2015 Center for the Humanities & the Arts, Graduate Committee and the Arts & Humanities Visiting Scholar Grant, University of
Colorado Boulder
2014 Kayden Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
2013 Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA), Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities (GCAH) Research Grant,
University of Colorado Boulder
2012 Fulbright Scholar, Manila, Philippines (Research Award in Sociology)
2011 Faculty Development Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University
2011 Research Travel Grant, Department of Sociology, Villanova University
2010 Research Support Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, Villanova University
2009 Visiting Research Fellow, Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman
2008 The Dean’s Fund for Excellence, University of Colorado at Boulder
2007 Center for the Humanities and the Arts Fellowship (CHA), University of Colorado at Boulder
2006 Dissertation Expense Award. Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
2006 Emily Schoenbaum Research and Community Development Grant, Newcomb College Center for Research on
Women, Tulane University
2005 Quick Response Grant, Natural Hazards Center with funds contributed by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
under the Center’s Quick Response Program
American Journal of Sociology; Asian Journal of Communication; Critical Asian Studies; Disasters; Ethnography; Fat Studies; Gender & Society; Gender, Place & Culture; Gender, Work, and Organization; Human Relations; Hypatia; International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters; Journal of Homosexuality; Men & Masculinities; Natural Hazards; Palgrave; Qualitative Sociology; Risk Analysis; Social & Cultural Geography; Symbolic Interaction; TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
Mailing Address:
Department of Women and Gender Studies
University of Colorado Boulder
Gates Woodruff Cottage / UCB 246
Boulder, CO 80309-0246
Email: emmanuel.david@colorado.edu