Publications
2025. Concepcion, M. de Gracia, Azucena (Centennial edition). Foreword by Patrick Rosal and biographical Introduction by Emmanuel David. New York: Persea Books.
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.