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Pronouns: he/him/his
Office Hours: By appointment
Emmanuel David is an interdisciplinary scholar of gender, sexuality, and globalization. His recent research on gender and sexuality in the Philippines has focused on a wide range of topics, including global call centers, the politics of beauty pageants, sex work and militarism, and contemporary art and performance. He is currently working on a book project about Christine Jorgensen’s performance tour across Asia and the Pacific in the early 1960s.
He is also engaging in an artist-scholar collaboration with Yumi Janairo Roth focused on the untold history of the Filipino Rough Riders of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Their work We Are Coming will be featured in the MCA Denver’s Cowboy exhibition, on view from September 29, 2023 to February 18, 2024. For more, see Roth and David’s We Are Coming project and the related text: Past, Present Come Together: Marquee Project Recognizes Rough Riders.
His previous work focused on the gendered dimensions of disaster. He is author of Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina (University of Illinois Press, 2017) and editor (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 scholarship has appeared in ASAP/Journal, Feminist Formations, Gender & Society, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Radical History Review, Sexualities, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.
At CU Boulder, he teaches Introduction to LGBT Studies; Women of Color & Activism; Gender, Race, and Class in a Global Context; Queer Theory; and Critical Inquiries in Transgender Studies. He is a recipient of CU Boulder's Best Should Teach Award for excellence in teaching.
Featured Publications
2023. David, Emmanuel. “Sonic Transness: Christine Jorgensen's Vocal Performance in Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy).” American Quarterly75(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. “Transpinay: Genealogy of a Term.” Sexualities.*Sociology of Sexualities 2023 Distinguished Article Award, American Sociological Association
(Online ahead of print: 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 from the 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 on “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 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 (October): 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.