EmmanuelDavid
- (He/Him)
- Associate Professor
- WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
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’sexhibition, which is now travelling to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art . For more, see Roth and David’sproject and their article “,” featured in theJournal of Asian American Studies.
His previous work focused on the gendered dimensions of disaster. He is author of(University of Illinois Press, 2017) and editor (with Elaine Enarson) of the interdisciplinary anthology(Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).
His scholarship has appeared inASAP/Journal,Feminist Formations,Gender & Society,GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies,Radical History Review,Sexualities,TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,Verge: Studies in GlobalAsias, andWSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.
At CU ǸԹ, 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 ǸԹ's Best Should Teach Award for excellence in teaching.