Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Sociology Department

Title Professor, Emeritus

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Anthropology Department

Faculty Type Emeriti

Primary Office Location Rachel Carson College Academic Building
Rachel Carson College 214

Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
B.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Research Interests

Sociology of knowledge; religion and social action; elitist and populist social movements; ethnicity; race; nationalism; global community.

Selected Publications

• Childs, J.B. 2018. Book Review: Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humor and Resilience, (Armelle Gaulier, Denis-Constant Martin), African Minds Newsletter, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Childs, J.B. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities, New Pacific Press.
• Childs, J.B. 2002. Transcommunality: From the Politics of Conversion to the Ethics of Respect. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• Childs, J. B. 1999. "On the Idea of Indigenous," (with Guillermo Delgado-P), Current Anthropology, Vol.40, No.2 (Discussion and Criticism Section) pp. 211-212.
• Childs, J. B. 1998. Accomodationism, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (Eds. Jack Salzman, David L. Smith, and Cornel West), New York, pp. 15-17.
• Childs, J. B. 1998. "Transcommunality: From the Politics of Conversion to the Ethics of Respect in the Context of cultural Diversity: Learning from Native American Philosophies with a Focus on the Haudenosaunee", Social Justice Vol.25, No.41, pp. 143-169.