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Emmanuel David is assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies and co-director of the  at the �鶹ӰԺ. He is a qualitative sociologist with specializations in gender, culture, and inequality. His current research, based on fieldwork conducted as a U.S. Fulbright Fellow, focuses on transgender workplace experiences in the global call center industry in the Philippines. His essay, “” has been published in Gender & Society, and additional articles appear in , , and . He is currently on the Editorial Board of .

His previous work on the gendered dimensions of disaster has appeared in several journals and books. Drawing on fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans, he investigated the ways in which disaster-related emergent groups, including those led by women, have provided important social and public services usually assumed by the state in non-crisis times. He has also examined how women’s post-disaster labor is linked to broader social and economic changes such as state restructuring, neoliberal reform, and the privatization of post-disaster recovery. He is editor (with Elaine Enarson) of the interdisciplinary anthology  (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012) and author of Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2017). 

Dr. David received his Ph.D. in Sociology with a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from CU �鶹ӰԺ (2009) and a Certificate of Study from the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society at the University of Amsterdam. Before joining the WGST Department at CU �鶹ӰԺ in 2013, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice at Villanova University (2010-2012).