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Associate Professor • Co-Director, LGBTQ Studies Certificate Program
Women and Gender Studies
emmanuel.david@colorado.edu

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Pronouns: he/him/his

听Office Hours:听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.听听He is currently working on a book project about Christine Jorgensen鈥檚 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鈥檚 Wild West. Their work We Are Coming will be featured in the MCA Denver鈥檚听Cowboy听exhibition, which is now travelling to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art . For more, see Roth and David鈥檚听听project and their article 鈥�,鈥� featured in the听Journal of Asian American Studies.

His previous work focused on the gendered dimensions of disaster. He is author of听听(University of Illinois Press, 2017) and editor (with Elaine Enarson) of the interdisciplinary anthology听听(Vanderbilt University Press, 2012).

His scholarship has appeared in听ASAP/Journal,听Feminist Formations,听Gender & Society,听GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies,听Radical History Review,听Sexualities,听TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly,听Verge: Studies in Global听Asias, and听WSQ: Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly.听

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.