Dr. Patricia J. Sohn, Ph.D.

Visiting Faculty (remote), Kathmandu University—Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies, School of Arts, Kathmandu University, Hatiban, Lalitpur, P.B. No. 6250, and Dhulikhel, Kavre, NEPAL. Main Office Phone: 0977-1-5251294, 0977-1-5251306. Email: patricia@kusoa.edu.np, patriciajsohn@gmail.com.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-9722

Current Address: U.S.A. Available upon request.

Patricia Janice Sohn. AKA: Woods (all publication to 2017); Keitt (1988-1990, on some certificates or diplomas). Eyes: Green. Hair: Ash Brown (Greying). Height: 5’6”. Religion: Buddhist (Mahayana-Tibetan). Heritage: Asian-American (Filipina-American), and Northern and Southern Europe (Spain, Germany, and Holland). Citizenship: U.S.A.

Research Interests

Qualitative comparative politics; political sociology; comparative and historical process tracing; formal and informal norms and values; culture, ideas, and political institutions; the micro-level, personal accounts, experience, and their relationship to society and state (e.g., political phenomenology); international studies; and East-West, civilizational relations, peace, and coexistence. Recent Research: international and political communication; media, film, and television as expressions of broader cultural perspectives and lived experience; Asian perspectival politics, ritual politics, and performativity as presented in recent popular Asian film and some television; Middle East and North Africa (MENA): politics and religion, society, culture and political institutions

Professional Appointments

1. September 2025 - present. Visiting Faculty, Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research, Kathmandu University, Hatiban, Lalitpur and Dhulikhel, Kavre, NEPAL. Onsite September 2025 – August 2026. Remote, located in Wichita, Kansas, U.S.A., since late August 2026

2. 2001-2025. Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, August 2010 – September 2025. Assistant Professor (tenure track), August 2001 – August 2010.  Graduate Faculty, May 2002 – September 2025

3. 2003-2004. Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, January 2003 to June 2004. Faculty appointment while on research leave from the University of Florida; research in Harvard libraries relating to book manuscript; paper presentation to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; two semesters participation and one paper presentation to Samuel Huntington’s Sawyer Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of Government

Education

1. 2001. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Near and Middle East Studies:  Modern Middle East Politics Track. Certificates: Comparative Law and Society; Women's Studies (comparative gender politics). Dissertation: Courting the Court: Social Visions, State Authority, and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel. Committee members: Joel Migdal, Reşat Kasaba, Nancy Hartsock, Michael McCann, Christine Di Stefano. Significant papers are listed in conference presentations, 1994-2001. Exams: Modern Middle East, Comparative Politics, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Women and Politics (comparative and international)

2. 1999-2000. HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM. Visiting Researcher, Department of Political Science. Dissertation fellow funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Program (IDRF); and the National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program Dissertation Grant (SES #9906136, Woods Co-PI). Sponsor: Menachem Hofnung. Guest lectures in law and society course in Hebrew language (Hofnung), and conference presentation at Israel Law and Society Association conference. Resulting significant papers are listed in conference presentations

3. 1997. TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY. Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Pre-dissertation fellow funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Near and Middle East Training and Research Program (NMERTA). Resulting significant papers are listed in conference presentations. January - July

4. 1995. BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY. International Program, non-degree seeking. Arabic language. June-August

5. 1993-1994. UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA. International Program, non-degree seeking. Hebrew and Arabic. Significant post-M.A. research on Arab-Jewish relations in the women’s movement, and menstruation coming-of-age rituals among Iraqi women immigrants. Audited political sociology course in Hebrew. January 1993 - June 1994

6. 1991. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, M.A., Religion (Comparative: Islam and Judaism). Thesis: Women and Feminism in Islam and Judaism: A Comparative Study of Two Feminist Thinkers, Judith Plaskow and Fatima Mernissi. University of Florida. Pages, ix, 216 pages; includes bibliographical references. Significant papers on Mary Douglas, and the chapter of Joseph. 1989-1991

7. 1989. UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, B.A., Religion (Comparative: Judaism and Islam). Phi Beta Kappa [Patricia Keitt], Phi Kappa Phi. Significant paper on defining “Hebrews” in ancient context (limited record appears in University of Florida transcript). 1985-1989

8. 1987. CANNES UNIVERSITY. International Program, non-degree seeking. Intensive French pre-semester preparatory program (limited record appears in University of Florida transcript). January

9. 1987. UNIVERSITY OF PARIS I / THE SORBONNE. International Program, non-degree seeking. French language, society, art and architecture. Audited seminars in political sociology in French (limited record appears in University of Florida transcript).. February - June

10. 1987. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS. International Program, non-degree seeking. International institutions and Arab-Israeli conflict. Significant paper on UN documents on the Arab-Israeli conflict using UNESCO archives (limited record appears in University of Florida transcript).. February - June

Languages

• Native speaker and writer: American English

• Foreign languages and study:

  • French (B+/A- level training; good spoken francophone French, Middle Eastern and African). Auditing seminars in French; participation in workshops (presenting in English, questions in French and English). Interviewing, high comprehension, fast reading speed

  • Hebrew (H/5th-level training in language and grammar, Hebrew literature Vav/6th-level, tutoring in legal language, and auditing seminars in Hebrew; participation in academic conferences; spoken basic proficiency, some social science vocabulary). Interviewing, very good comprehension, slow reading speed, training, reading and translation of specialized language such as court documents

  • Arabic (primarily Modern Standard written and philological method to Form XVIII; Arabic linguistics; very little spoken). Translations to American English (especially poetic)

  • Elementary training (rudimentary linguistic knowledge): spoken Palestinian colloquial Arabic, first-year; German, first-year; Haitian Creole, first-year; Italian, second-year; Spanish, second-year (tutoring); Turkish, first-year

Major Fellowships, Grants, Awards, Honors

• Alternate, Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship Program for a project on resistance to anti-Semitism in the region of Pisa, Italy, and in Denmark, 1938-1945, Fulbright Foundation, 2023

• Certificate of Recognition, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, for three years of service on the Fulbright National Screening Committee for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, March 2016

• University of Florida Humanities Faculty Enhancement Fellowship, 2015

• Online Course Development Award Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2012-2013

• University of Florida Provost Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Award, 2009

• University of Florida Provost Nominee to the Carnegie Fellows Program, 2008

• Honorary Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College of Law, University of London, June 2004

• Foreign Research Fellow, Groupe d’analyse des politiques publiques (GAPP), Ecole Normale Supérieure-Cachan, France, May 2004

• Dissertation Grant, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences (NSF-SES #9906136, Co-PI, Woods 1999)

• Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1999-2000

• Social Science Research Council competitive, special-topics Dissertation Workshop Fellow, Marrakech, Morocco, July 1999

• Dorot Foundation research award, 1999-2000

• Social Science Research Council Near and Middle East Pre-Dissertation Award, 1997

• Anderson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2007

• Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2002

Selected Professional Service

• National Screening Committee, Fulbright Foundation, Fall 2022

• Curator and Founder (e.g., guest editor), blog, “Subaltern States,” E-International Relations (http://eir.info), October 2016 – February 2019 (author of almost four dozen blog pieces, and edited international and domestic guest contributions to the blog; approximately two blog pieces per month during that period by self or from domestic and international contributors; solicited contributions, domestically and internationally; language or style editing of contributions)

• Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, Fall 2018

• National Screening Committee, Fulbright Foundation, Fall 2015

• National Screening Committee, Fulbright Foundation, Fall 2013

• National Screening Committee, Fulbright Foundation, Fall 2008

• Section Chair, Comparative Politics of Developing Areas, Southern Political Science Association, 2012-2013

• Best Paper Award Committee, Southern Political Science Association, 2012-2013

• Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies, 2011-2012

• Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Spring 2011

• Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, 2010

• Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, Spring 2010

• Proposal reviewer, City University of New York, Spring 2010

• Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, 2006 competition

• Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, 2005 competition

• American Judicature Award Committee, American Judicature Society, 2007

• Program Committee Member, Association for Israel Studies Conference, 2007

• Ex-officio Board Member, Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007

• Webmaster, Association for Israel Studies, 2005-2007

• Dissertation Workshop Committee, Association for Israel Studies, 2003-2004, 2004-2005

• Committee Chair and Faculty Discussant, Dissertation Workshop, Association for Israel Studies, 2004

• Nominating Committee, Association for Israel Studies, 2004-2005

• Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, 2004

• Program Chair, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, University of California, San Diego, 2003

• Executive Board Member, Association for Israel Studies, 2001-2005

• President and Co-Founder, Graduate Student Organization, Association for Israel Studies, 1997-2000

• Secretariat Liaison, Graduate Student Organization, Middle East Studies Association, calendar year 1995

Intramural Awards And Honors

• 2025. Great Teaching Certificate, University of Florida, February

• 2025. Student Focused Teaching Badge, University of Florida, February

• 2025. Digital Teaching Badge, University of Florida, January

• 2023 and 2024. Four - Affordable UF Badges (e.g., affordable texts) for courses

• 2021. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Funds, August

• 2019. Quest 1 Trial 1 Course Development Award and Instructor (university-wide course on identities, political fiction and film), Spring

• 2015. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sabbatical (competitive), Spring

• 2012. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel funds, University of Florida, Spring 2012 (declined)

• 2009. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel funds, University of Florida, Spring 2009

• 2005-2006. Center for Jewish Studies Course Development Grant

• 2005. Department of Political Science Summer Research Award

• 2003. Nominee, College Teaching Award, University of Florida

• 2002. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, University of Florida, October

• 2002. Department of Political Science Summer Research Grant, University of Florida, Summer

• 1998. University of Washington Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, Spring

• 1995. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations / Middle East Center Research and Travel Award, University of Washington, Summer

• 1994-1997. Hall-Ammerer-WRF Graduate Fellowship Award, University of Washington

University Service

• Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 2013-2024, excepting two semesters

• Member, Infrastructure Council (a Faculty Senate Council), 2022-2025

• Faculty Committee Member, Fulbright Campus Interviews, University of Florida, Autumn 2023

• Undergraduate Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies, 2021-2023

• Member, Academic Policy Council (a Faculty Senate Council), 2022-2023, 2017-2020

• Chair, Academic Policy Council, 2018-2019

• Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2019-2022

• Faculty Senator, University of Florida, 2006-2007, 2015-2018, 2019-2022

• Member, Senate Steering Committee, University of Florida, 2018-2019

• Chair, Professional Development Leave Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2018-2019

• Member, College Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2014-2016

• Pitched, co-organized, and achieved MOU with Hebrew University of Jerusalem in coordination with the University of Florida International Center, 2014

• Faculty Advisory Committee, “Aftermath: The Fallout of War–America and the Middle East,” Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2013-2016

• E-Learning, Faculty Quality Assurance Committee, University of Florida, 2013-2015

• Co-Coordinator and Founder, Near and Middle East Studies Working Group, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, May 2006-2009

• Organized major donor visit with the Florida Foundation on behalf of the Near and Middle East Working Group at the request of University of Florida International Center Dean, 2008

• Madelyn Lockhart Faculty Development Award Committee, Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Florida, Fall 2006

• Graduate Student Liaison Officer, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near Eastern Studies, University of Washington. Conducted, completed, and analyzed a faculty and graduate student survey; attended Middle East Center, Jackson School of International Studies, faculty meetings; and penned initial text for a 10-year national program review. Supervisor: Jackson School of International Studies Director Jere Bacharach

Publications

Current Research/In Progress

·        Patricia Sohn, Ritual and Perspectival Politics in Asian Popular Film and Television. (Book/Monograph)

·        Special Issue, Editor, Dean Uddhab Pyakurel, and Co-Editor, Dr. Patricia J. Sohn, for a major thematic international studies journal on the topic of the Generation-Z phenomenon

Books

1. 2008. FIRST EDITION. Patricia Sohn, Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel (State University of New York Press). Theoretical framework in law and society literature

2. 2017. SECOND EDITION. Patricia Sohn, Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel (State University of New York Press). Significantly revised with two new chapters, and full data set from first national-level survey of women’s movement volunteers

3. 2022. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, editors, Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics (University of Michigan Press). Sixteen chapters plus section introductions by the editors, www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_edited/10.3998/mpub.11866503

Dissertation and Thesis

4. 1991. Patricia J. Woods, “Women and Feminism in Islam and Judaism: A Comparative Study of Two Feminist Thinkers, Judith Plaskow and Fatima Mernissi,” Thesis (M.A.), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (225 pages including three glossaries, appendix, and bibliographical references)

5. 2001. Patricia Woods. Courting the Court: Social Visions, State Authority, and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel, Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 317 pages includes glossary, references, two appendices, and curriculum vitae). Available from ProQuest Dissertation Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI, see University of Michigan Library: https://search.lib.umich.edu/articles/record/cdi_proquest_journals_251733670

Mini-Symposia (Journal Special Issues)

6. 2003. Liora Israël, Patricia Woods, Jayanth Krishnan, Stephen Meili, Marie-Aude Beernaert, Katia Weidenfeld, Bruno Milly, and François Chazel, Special Issue, “La justice comme espace politique. Trois études de cas: Israël, Inde, Argentine” in Droit et Société 3(55): 595-780

7. 2009. Lisa Hilbink and Patricia J. Woods, editors, Mini-Symposium, “Judicial Empowerment in Comparative Perspective: Ideas and Interests,” in Political Research Quarterly 62:4 (December): 745-839

8. 2025-2026. Patricia Sohn, Guest Editor, Special Issue, “Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective” in Religions 16:7 (2025) to 17:4 (2026), on topics including albinism and magic rituals among elites in Tanzania, settlers and ritual politics in the West Bank, ritual politics and Asian perspectives in popular film, Christian social memory and the Yeosu–Suncheon incident in Korea (phenomenology), divine kingship models in historical Mesopotamia and China, and historical textual construction through ongoing ritual performativity in the Japanese Hyakuzahōdan Kikigakishō, see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/1P0H99U78N

E-Textbook

9. 2017. Patricia Sohn, editor. Qualitative Comparative Politics: Formative Texts and Case Studies (Kendall Hunt Publishers, Higher Education Series); introductory chapter and chapter introductions by Patricia Sohn, 278 pages

Articles and Chapters

10. 2003. Steven V. Mazie and Patricia J. Woods, “Prayer, Contentious Politics, and the Women of the Wall: The Benefits of Collaboration in Participant Observation at Intense, Multi-Focal Events” in Field Methods 15:1 (February): 25-50

11. 2003. Patricia J. Woods, “Normes juridiques et changement politique en Israël,” as part of a mini-symposium in Droit et Société 3(55): 605-626

12. 2004. Patricia J. Woods, "Gender and the Reproduction and Maintenance of Group Boundaries: Why the 'Secular' State Matters to Religious Authorities in Israel" in Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices, Joel S. Migdal, editor, Cambridge University Press

13. 2004. Patricia J. Woods, "It’s Israeli After All: A Survey of Israeli Women’s Movement Volunteers" in Israel Studies Forum 19:2 (April): 29-53

14. 2005. Patricia J. Woods, “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” in The Worlds Cause Lawyers Make: Structure and Agency in Legal Practice, edited by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, Stanford University Press

15. 2008. Patricia J. Woods and Scott W. Barclay, "Cause Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators with and Against the State: Symbiosis or Opposition?" in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 45: 203-234

16. 2009.  Patricia J. Woods and Lisa Hilbink, “Judicial Empowerment in Comparative Perspective: Interests and Ideas,” introduction to a mini-symposium in Political Research Quarterly 62:4 (December): 745-752

17. 2009. Patricia J. Woods, “The Ideological Roots of Israel’s Constitutional Revolution,” as part of a mini-symposium of Political Research Quarterly 62:4 (December): 811-824

18. 2013. Patricia J. Woods, “The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures in the Image of a Singular, Unified Israeli State” in The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach, Adam White, editor, University of Washington Press

19. 2015. Colonel Haluk Karadağ and Patricia J. Woods, “Default Power in the MENA Region: Turkey as a Pragmatic Solution to the Post-Arab Spring Era” in International Relations and Foreign Policy 3:2 (December): 1-11

20. 2015. Patricia J. Woods and Colonel Haluk Karadağ, “Rights or Riots? Regional Institutional and Cultural Legacies in the MENA Region, and the Case of Turkey” in Journal of Power, Politics, and Governance 3:1 (June): 63-79

21. 2016. Patricia J. Woods, “The Women’s Movement: Mobilization and the State” in Contemporary Israel: New Insights and Scholarship (Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century Series), Frederick Greenspahn, editor, New York University Press

22. 2017. Patricia J. Woods, “Fault Lines” in The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Cambridge Companions to Religion Series), Christine Hayes, editor, Cambridge University Press

23. 2022. Patricia Sohn and Simone Raudino, “Editors’ Introduction: Religion and Politics” in Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, editors, University of Michigan Press

24. 2022. Patricia Sohn, “Global Trends in Religion and State: Secular Law and Freedom of Religion in Israel” in Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, editors, University of Michigan Press

25. 2023. Patricia Sohn, "The Neo-Positive Value of Symbolic Representations and Ritual Politics: Reconsidering the South Korean Allegory in Popular Film, Asura: The City of Madness" in Religions 14:11 (October): 1362 (18 pages)

26. 2025. Patricia Sohn, "Asian Perspectives and Ritual Politics in Recent Popular Film and Television” in Religions 16 :11 (November): 1449 (35 pages)

Open-Access Disciplinary Portal/Magazine

(Articles, Research, Comparative-International Policy, and/or Analytical Essays)

27. 2021. Patricia Sohn, “Theatres of Difference: The Film ‘Hair’, Otherness, Alterity, Subjectivity and Lessons for Identity Politics” in E-International Relations, Articles, September 28 (Research)

28. 2022. Patricia Sohn, “The Color of Institutions: Unity, Morality, or Decay? A Personal Reflection” in E-International Relations, Articles, June 22 (Research)

29. 2023. Patricia Sohn, “United Moderate Religions vs. Secular and Religious Extremes?” in E-International Relations, Articles, April 3 (Research)

30. 2023. Patricia Sohn, “Inclusiveness, Pedagogy, Identity, Ideology, and the Epistemology of the Professor” in E-International Relations, Articles, May 13 (Pedagogy)

31. 2023. A. Patricia Sohn, Shadi Heidarifar and Sydney Polanin, “Religion and Secularism in Turkey, and the Turkish Elections” in E-International Relations, Articles, May 26 (Policy/Research). B. Simultaneously published, 2023. Patricia Sohn, Shadi Heidarifar and Sydney Polanin, “Religion and secularism in Turkey and the Turkish elections” in Culturico.com: International Relations, Society & Culture, May 26. Simultaneously published in E-International Relations, Articles (Policy/Research)

32. 2024. Patricia Sohn, “Opinion – Gerontology” in E-International Relations, Articles, October 10 (Policy)

33. 2024. Patricia Sohn, “Opinion – Habitus and the 2024 US Presidential Election” in E-International Relations, Articles, November 10 (Policy)

34. 2025. Patricia Sohn, “Opinion – Trump’s Coronation: The New Romanov Century” in E-International Relations, Articles, January 27 (Policy)

35. 2025. Patricia Sohn.  “Opinion – Reflections on the Global Sex Trade and the War in Ukraine” in E-International Relations, Articles. March 7 (Policy)

36. 2025. Uddhab Pyakurel and Patricia Sohn, “Kathmandu: City of Peace, Economies of Scale, and Cultural Diversity” in E-International Relations, Articles, October 29 (Policy/Research)

37. 2026. Patricia Sohn and Uddhab Pyakurel, “Benedict, Tradition, and the Wilsonian Social Contract” in E-International Relations, Articles, February 3 (Policy/Research/Theory)

38. 2026. Patricia Sohn, “Opinion – The 47-Year War of Attrition in the Middle East and North Africa” in E-International Relations, Articles, April 6, 2026 (Policy/Research)

39. 2026. Patricia Sohn, “Bureaucracy for Evil: Pisa and Denmark’s Remarkable Refusal of Nazi Death Policies” in E-International Relations, Articles, August 16 (Research)

Book Reviews

40. 1995. Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour and Alice Lynd, editors. Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians (Olive Branch Press, 1994) in MELA Notes: Middle East Librarians Association 62 (Spring): 73-74.  Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

41. 1996. Harvey Goldberg, editor. Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era (Indiana University Press, 1996) in New Perspectives on Turkey 15 (Fall): 147-149.  Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

42. 1997. Gad Barzilai, Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East (State University of New York Press, 1996) in Middle East Journal 51:3 (Summer): 448-450.  Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

43. 1998. Yael Yishai, Between the Flag and the Banner: Women in Israeli Politics (State University of New York Press, 1997) in Israel Studies Bulletin 13:2 (Spring): 33-34.  Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

44. 1999. Ilana Kaufman. Arab National Communism in the Jewish State (University Press of Florida, 1997) in Shofar 17:4 (Summer): 117-119. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

45. 1999. Lila Abu-Lughod. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (Princeton University Press, 1998) in New Perspectives on Turkey 18 (Fall).  Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

46. 2016. Kent F. Schull, M. Safa Saraçoğlu, and Robert Zens, eds. Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (Indiana University Press, 2016) in  Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1:1 (May) 83-88. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods

Articles or Interviews

47. 2008. Patricia J. Woods, “Judicial Power and National Politics” in Secular Culture and Ideas, a publication of JBooks, lead article, July

48. 2016. Interview – Prince El-Waleed M. Madibo, conducted by Patricia Woods in E-International Relations, December 3

Curator (e.g., guest editor), Creator, and Founder, “Subaltern States” a blog/column for E-International Relations (formerly http://e-ir.org), October 2016 to February 2019; approximately two articles per month for that period by self or contributors; solicited articles, managed, and edited contributions from domestic and international scholars; nearly four dozen essays by self. When the blogs page closed, all essays from “Subaltern States” were moved to the Articles page. Highest number of views for any one, 14,089 views as of May 6, 2025. (Views are no longer visible)

49. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Introducing ‘Subaltern States’” in E-International Relations, October 20

50. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism” in E-International Relations, October 20

51. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Income Inequality & Subaltern America: Thoughts for U.S. Election Day” in E-International Relations, October 27

52. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Explaining the Donald Trump Victory” in E-International Relations, November 9 (2,664 views as of May 6, 2025)

53. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Pacifism, Just War and Civil Liberties in a Multicultural Age” in E-International Relations, November 11

54. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Methods War: How Ideas Matter within Political Science” in E-International Relations, November 24

55. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Inhabiting Orthodoxy: Discussing Islam and Feminism, Continued” in E-International Relations, December 9

56. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Fourteen Points on Local Courts in the U.S.” in E-International Relations, December 27

57. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Mainstream Film and the Middle East” in E-International Relations, January 21

58. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The War of the Words: Trump and the Left” in E-International Relations, March 3

59. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Symbolic Violence and Post-Election USA: A Parable” in E-International Relations, March 16

60. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Want a Scapegoat? Blame Serbia! (a Satire)” in E-International Relations, March 31

61. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Institutions Matter, Or, What I Learned Sleeping with Lions in Kenya” in E-International Relations, April 6

62. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Has the U.S. Become a Single-Party Regime?” in E-International Relations, April 20

63. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Faith and Good Works Party – In My (Utopian) Dreams” in E-International Relations, April 28

64. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Bombing Syria, Isis, and How We Got Here” in E-International Relations, May 4

65. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What I Learned Fending off Wild Camels in Pamukkale (A Travelogue)” in E-International Relations, May 11

66. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Which T.V. Show or Movie Does This World Most Resemble?” in E-International Relations, May 19

67. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Village Knows Better, and Other Forms of Mob Rule” in E-International Relations, June 2

68. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Will Trump Be to Palestinian-Israeli Peace What Nixon Was to the U.S and China?” in E-International Relations, June 8

69. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What Do We Mean by ‘Local People’? The Palestinian Case” in E-International Relations, June 23

70. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Is Trump the New Multicultural Internationalist?” in E-International Relations, July 21

71. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What Do Karl Marx, Napoleon, and the Majlis Have in Common?” in E-International Relations, September 29

72. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Going Grassroots: Visiting the Foreign Locales of Arkansas and Southwest Texas” in E-International Relations, October 19

73. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Nazi Movement Today: Our Cousins, Ourselves” in E-International Relations, October 26

74. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Why Jerusalem Is the Capital of Israel – And Palestine” in E-International Relations, December 8 (6,458 views as of May 6, 2025)

75. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “10th Anniversary Post – Why Faculty Use Blogs” in E-International Relations, December 17

76. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Bounty≠Consumerism: An International, Aesthetic Christmas” in E-International Relations, December 24

77. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “A 21-Year-Old Reform Movement on the Brink of Success” in E-International Relations, January 26

78. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Why States-Rights States Can Take Responsibility for Their Own Catastrophes” in E-International Relations, February 23

79. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “The Path to Authoritarianism: How Do We Get There?!” in E-International Relations, March 8

80. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Why Trump’s Meeting with North Korean Matters: The Asia-Middle East Connection” in E-International Relations, May 18

81. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “N-of-1 Survey Finds Support for a Return to the Divine Right of Kings (A Satire)” in E-International Relations, May 22

82. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “If There Was a Time to Support Reformists in Iran, It’s Now” in E-International Relations, May 24

83. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “A Bit of Bedouin Perspective on World Politics Today” in E-International Relations, August 22

84. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Border Crossings: Our Criminals, Their Criminals, and ‘Good Fences’” in E-International Relations, September 1

85. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Fiction, Film & Empiricism: Comparative Politics as Action and Adventure” in E-International Relations, September 29

86. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “International Travel is a Risky Business: Research, Study, & Proselytizing” in E-International Relations, October 21

87. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “The Theatre of Politics: Politics as Oscar Broadway” in E-International Relations, November 2

88. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “What is Nationalism? A Nation? A Nationalist?” in E-InternationalRelations, November 16 (14,089 views as of May 6, 2025)

89. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Courts: The Quagmire”in E-International Relations, November 30

90. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Habitus: Why Positive Law is Better than Originalism or Post-Modernism in Law” in E-International Relations, December 15

91. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “Aquaman: A New Year Parable in Race and Ethnicity” in E-International Relations, January 12

92. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Pre-Modernism, or, the Rural-Urban Divide” in  E-International Relations, January 25

93. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Traditional Capitalism” in E-International Relations, February 9

94. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “A Rationale for Pluralism, The Rural, Remote Peasant” in E-International Relations, February 15

95. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “Women Acquitting Themselves Well” in E-International Relations, February 15

Independent Blog, The Arena: People and Politics

Articles by self and outside contributors, 2019-2021; 18 new essays, see thearenapeopleandpolitics.wordpress.com, including one essay on George Floyd

Invited Presentations and Workshops (Conference List is Later in this Document)

All papers presented by Patricia J. Sohn (Woods):

1. 2026. “Global Media and International Communication.” Speaker for program-wide Graduate Workshop on Communication and Media Theories, Department of Languages and Mass Communication, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, Nepal, March 20

2. 2026. Speaker, Orientation for New Ph.D. Students, Department of Languages and Mass Communication, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, Nepal, February 8

3. 2022-2023. Participant, Martin Buber Workshop with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Claudia Welz. Organized by Claudia Welz, Department of Religion and Department of Philosophy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (online, international faculty participants from at least four continents)

4. 2023. “Fault Lines: The Women’s Movement, Orthodoxy, and The Secular State in Israel” presented to the International Program in the Humanities and the Department of Religion, University of Pisa, July 14

5. 2018. “Human Rights in Israel,” presented to the workshop, Jewish History and Culture: New Insights from Florida Scholars, part of the Gimelstob Symposium in Judaic Studies, organized by Frederick Greenspahn, Florida Atlantic University, January 28-29

6. 2014. "New Constituencies, Independent Judiciaries? The Debates over State-Sanctioned Religious Law in Israel” presented to the Robbins Collection Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Implementing Religious Law in Contemporary Nation-States: Definitions and Challenges, February

7. 2011. "Religion as Resistance to the (Secular) Nation-State” presented to a workshop, Judicial Politics and the Accommodation of Religious Minorities, University of Toronto, April

8. 2008. “The Women’s Movement and Religious Authorities in Israel” presented to the Jackson School of International Studies, Program in Jewish Studies Series workshop, New Interpretations of Israel: Politics, Society, Culture & Human Rights, University of Washington, March 11

9. 2007. “Ethnic Politics and Women’s Movement Mobilization in Israel: The Role of Ideas” presented to the workshop, Policy from the Grassroots: How Social Forces Shackle and Transform Policymakers, University of Washington, February 25-26

10. 2006. “Contentious Politics in the Israeli Women’s Movement” presented to the international workshop, Contentious Politics in Israel: Past and Present, sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, October 18-19

11. 2005. "Religious Authorities and the Secular State in Israel" invited presentation to the Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Miami, February 14

12. 2004. “Legal Norms, Political Change, and Judicial Community” invited presentation to the Groupe d’analyse des politiques publiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Cachan, Cachan, France, May

13. 2003. “Conflicting Visions: Social Movements and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel” invited presentation, the Middle East Forum colloquium, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, October 14

14. 2003. “Tracing Micro-Processes: Formal and Informal Interactions within the Judicial Community in Israel” invited presentation to the Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University, April 23

15. 2003. “Courting the Court: A Small Women’s Movement, the Judicial Community, and the Battle for the Soul of the Jewish State” invited presentation, Program in Judaic Studies and Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, February 14

16. 2002. “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” presented to the Cause Lawyering III Workshop, organized by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, editors. Hosted by the Groupe d’analyse des politiques publiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Cachan, Cachan, France, October 11-14

17. 2000. “Group Boundaries and Religious Authorities in Israel: Visions of Society, Visions of State” presented to the workshop, Boundaries and Belonging, Jackson School of International Studies and the George Taylor Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September

18. 2000. “Researching Courts and Legal Community in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellows Workshop, Amsterdam, October

19. 1999. “Operationalizing Influence: The Women’s Movement and the High Court in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council Special Topics Dissertation Workshop on States and Societies in the Middle East, Marrakech, Morocco, July

20. 1997, “The Fight for Jurisdiction: Personal Status Law and State-Society Relations in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council Near and Middle East Research and Training Fellows Workshop, Cairo, March

21. 2009. “Social Movements and Judicial Community in Israel” presented to the Soros Foundation Palestinian Faculty Development Program and Palestinian Rule of Law Program 2009 Joint Fellows’ Workshop, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, March 20

Conference Presentations and Panels Organized by Patricia J. Sohn (Woods)

All papers presented by Patricia J. Sohn (Woods), chair, discussant, etc.:

22. 2024. Chair of panel on ritual, culture, and ethnography. Paper presenter, “Perspectival Politics: Religion, Culture, and Ritual Politics in Two Asian Films” presented to the European Association for the Study of Religions, Göteborg, Sweden, August 20

23. 2022. “Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics,” Roundtable, American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada (roundtable organized by self; attended by other participants; not attended by self due to Covid-related travel restrictions), September

24. 2022. “Beyond the Death of God: Religion and Politics,” themed panel and paper for presentation to the Twelfth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Cordoba, Spain, (organized by self; cancelled due to lack of participants related to Covid travel restrictions), June

25. 2021. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, “Beyond the Death of God,” presented to the European Association for the Study of Religions, Pisa, Italy, August/September

26. 2020. Pre-Organized Panel and Individual Paper relating to the Beyond the Death of God volume, then in process, for the International Political Science Association conference, Lisbon, Portugal (panel organized by self; the conference was cancelled and postponed due to Covid-19 impact on international travel and conferences), July

27. 2019. Patricia Sohn and Esther Carmel-Hakim, “Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Peace and Interfaith Coexistence: From Formal Workshops to Cooking Kitchens” presented to the Mid-West Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April

28. 2016. “Convenor” (e.g., Organizer) and Discussant, panel, Religion and Law, organized for the Research Committee (RC09) on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July

29. 2016. “Religion and State Through the Lens of Jewish Law in Israel,” presented to the pre-organized panel, Religion and Law, Research Committee (RC09) on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July

30. 2016 Col. Dr. Haluk Karadağ and Patricia J. Woods, “Rights or Riots: Regional Institutional and Cultural Legacies in the MENA Region, and the Case of Turkey,” presented to the Congress Session on Political Institutions and Civic Engagement’s panel on Content and Discontent With Government in an Unequal World, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July

31. 2015. “Conflicting Visions: The Women’s Movement and State Religious Authorities in Israel” presented to the Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, University of California, Berkeley, April

32. 2013. “The Israeli Women's Movement and Israeli Legal Culture,” presented to the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December

33. 2011. “Doing Daily Battle in Israel: Women's Political Mobilization,” presented to the American Political Science Association annual conference, Seattle, WA, September

34. 2011. “Women’s Political Resistance in Israel,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, June

35. 2010. “The Ideational Foundations of Israel’s ‘Constitutional Revolution,’” International Political Science Association, Comparative Judicial Studies Section, Bologna, Italy, June. Paper distributed in my absence (unable to attend due to a conflict a research trip to the Middle East)

36. 2007. Organizer, organized panel, “A Comparative Analysis of Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August

37. 2007. “The Judicial Construction of Liberal Rights and Judicial Power: The Case of Israel,” presented to the American Political Science Association as part of the organized panel, “A Comparative Analysis of Ran Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis,” Chicago, IL, August

38. 2007. “Strategic Alliances and the Homogenizing Nation-State: Religion, Family, and Tribe in Iraq and Israel,” presented to the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March

39. 2006. Chair and Discussant, Organized Panel, Citizenship and Civic Participation, Law and Society Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, July 6

40. 2006. “Religion and the Nation-State: Competing Authorities in Israel and Iraq,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Banff, Canada, May 30

41. 2005. “Israel’s Court-Driven Constitutional Revolution,” presented to the American Political Science Association panel, “Courts and Comparative Democratization,” Washington, D.C., September 3

42. 2005. “The Israel High Court and Its Constitutional Revolution: History and Community,” presented to the Western Political Science Association, Oakland, CA, March

43. 2004. “Weak Ties, Judicial Power, and the Role of the Judiciary in a Democracy,” presented to the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September

44. 2004. Discussant, Comparative Politics Theme Panel, “Democratization and Judicial Reform,” American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, September

45. 2003. "Cause Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators for the State," co-authored with Scott W. Barclay, presented to the Law and Society Association, Pittsburgh, PA, June

46. 2003. “Tracing Micro-Processes: Formal and Informal Interactions within the Judicial Community in Israel,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, San Diego, CA, April

47. 2002. “The Irony of State Incorporation,” presented to the American Political Science Association Religion and Politics Section, Boston, MA, August

48. 2002. “Cause Lawyers, Rights Revolution, and Judicial Power,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Vail, CO, May

49. 2002. "Cause Lawyers and the Judicial Community in Israel," presented to the Law and Society Association, pre-organized panel on Socio-Political Variation and Cause Lawyering Possibilities, Vancouver, Canada, May

50. 2000. “Opportunities and Influence: The Case of a Small Social Movement and the Israel High Court of Justice,” presented to the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September

51. 1999. “An Historical Institutionalist Model of Social Influence in a State Institution: The Israeli High Court of Justice,” presented to the Israel Law and Society Association, Jerusalem, Israel, November

52. 1999. “Operationalizing Influence: The Women’s Movement and the High Court in Israel,” presented to the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, March

53. 1998. “Specifying Standpoint: Coalition, Difference, and Conflict in the Israeli Women’s Movement,” presented to the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., December

54. 1998. "New Constituencies, Independent Judiciaries: The Women's Movement and the Religious Law Debates," presented to the Association for Israel Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, June

55. 1997. "Judicialization of Politics, or Politization of the Judiciary? The Women's Movement, the High Court, and the Religious Law Debates in Israel," presented to the Association for Israel Studies panel of the Middle East Studies Association conference, San Francisco, CA, November

56. 1995. "Women in Israel: The Nexus of Religion, Politics and Law," presented to the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., December

Organized Scholarly Visits or International Zoom Addresses

2002 - 2024. Organized over a dozen scholar talks/visits, most international and a few domestic, including several Zoom addresses in more recent years, for the Department of Political Science or the Center for Jewish Studies with co-sponsorships on the part of other units and Colleges across campus, University of Florida

Departmental Service 

Full list available upon request. 

·        2001-2002. First departmental service: Department Scribe, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Academic Year (note taker for records at faculty meetings)

• 2026. “Writing Research Projects in Social Sciences,” presented to the program-wide “Seminar For Ph.D. Studies,” a Qualifying research symposium/dissertation workshop, Department of Languages and Mass Communication, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, January 13

• 2025. Guest lectures, “Epistemologies,” presented to Ph.D. students, Department of Languages and Mass Communication, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, November 2 and 9

• 2025. Short course, “Reading in Social Sciences,” for B.A. students in the College of Arts, Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, October and November

Courses

Courses center upon academic texts, primary research, and themes emphasizing the development of analytical reading; analytical and/or social science writing; and academic (professional) speaking skills. This teaching method draws upon a “great texts” approach

Undergraduate:

1. Short Course. Reading in Social Sciences. A cross-disciplinary short course in great works and developing higher-level analytical reading skills in (English-language) social sciences at the nexus of the political, sociological, and social-theoretical, Kathmandu University, Nepal

2. Politics of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Comparative, Historical, Institutional, and Social. Institutional arrangements between the central Ottoman imperial state and a wide range of formations of local communities from sedentary villages, towns, and cities to rural agriculturalists to Bedouin and nomadic peoples; symbolic politics; religion and politics; Gerges, Qutb, and Nasser; youth politics and opportunities; women and politics. University of Florida

3. Islam and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Comparative, Historical, Institutional, and Social. Late-19th, 20th, and 21st centuries; religious-secular social, political, and legal dynamics; social and political mobilization; modernism and traditionalism; gender politics; the politics of space and boundaries (social, physical, and territorial); veiling; public opinion, Islamic attitudes, and political attitudes; Islamic law and courts; social mobilization; and religious revival and piety; case studies in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Tunisia, and region-wide. University of Florida

4. Political Change and Legal Development. Comparative and international judicial politics and judicial institutions; state-society relations in the context of the judiciary; constitutional politics and bills of rights; judicial autonomy; and courts in Pakistan, Europe, Japan, Brazil, India, Israel, and several cases in the British Commonwealth. University of Florida

5. Comparative Law and Judicial institutions in comparative and international perspective; political-sociological approaches to courts as institutions; comparative judicial and constitutional politics (rights frameworks); judicial autonomy; Max Weber on bureaucracy, and judicial-executive relations; political, political-sociological, or political-ethnographic case studies of courts in Europe, MENA, China, Japan, and elsewhere. University of Florida

6. Introduction to Comparative Politics. Historical, Institutional, Social, Social Theory, and Case Studies. Development of the late-modern state (divine right of kings to the nation-state, and the long 19th century); the development of the late-modern economy (traditional to modern capitalism); ethnicity and nationalism; several important revolutions; a few theory and method debates; authoritarianism, clientelism, and democracy; comparative judicial politics; and the domestic-level politics of several different countries by case study in historical or contemporary terms, including England, France, Kyrgyzstan, and Egypt, and, more briefly, Chile, Israel, Indonesia, Russia, and Iran. Students can do group semester project on a country by region: Europe; Africa; Latin America; MENA; South Asia; Southeast Asia; China; or Russia, former-Soviet Union, or former-Soviet Bloc. Or, group semester project can be conducted on a country by theme: case study research; democracy and civil society; national identity; ethnicity and ethnic politics; civil wars; social movements; political clientelism; comparative judicial politics; separation of powers, balance of powers, and/or checks and balances; authoritarianism; and the welfare state in comparative perspective. Taught in person in lecture hall, and developed for e-learning as well as for UF-Online. University of Florida

7. Politics, Fiction, and Popular Film. Asia, MENA, and Europe. Identity politics; socio-political transformations in historical-institutional frame; inter-cultural, inter-generational, regional, and international interactions and dynamics; major historical-institutional and world-historical changes linked with individual, community, and national-level experiences as expressed in film, e.g., political phenomenology. University of Florida

8. Identities and Transformation: Fiction and Film. Quest 1 UF Course: Humanities. Comparative and International, Asia, MENA, Europe, and additional regions; social theories relating to identities and state-society relations; individual, local, national, or regional identities and phenomena; world-historical, “structural” historical and political changes, such as feudalism to the rule of law, religion to secularism, traditional capitalism to modern capitalism, and localized identities to nationalism; shifts in global power centers and their impact(s) upon individuals, communities, and the ways that people are able to (or are apt to) conceive of themselves, their communities, and their life choices; cross-cultural dynamics within and across communities and regions, including, “cross-cultural encounter;” sub-cultures; inter-generational tensions, coexistence, and issues relating to power sharing and autonomy; East/West dynamics; and the methodological theme: how can we find, or, what do we look for in order to identify when something is a question of identity? University of Florida

9. Culture and Politics: Jews and Muslims. Political phenomenology: paradigmatic 20th century macro-level experiences. Comparative, Historical, and International. From Gerges on Qutb and Nasser to R. Lau and Hannah Arendt on the Holocaust. University of Florida

10. Judaism and Politics. Comparative and International. Judaism and law; Jewish feminism; several major sets of Jewish experiences of the 20th century, by region including North Africa, Europe, Latin America, and as refugees in China; and several critical 20th century social theorists relating to issues of community, the Other, Subject and Object (Buber, Levinas, Said, Bourdieu). University of Florida

11. Israel: Religion and Politics. Liberal democracy, religion, and ethnic communities; the basic laws and the branches of government as related to religion and politics; prophetic and messianic movements; religion and politics in comparative and international perspective, situating Israel; ethnic politics within and across communities in Israel as relates to religion and politics; Jewish law (religious, secular, historical, and contemporary), according to several scholars; and women’s agency among Orthodox communities, including reproductive or marital politics. University of Florida

12. Women and Politics in the Modern Middle East. Late-19th century to recent decades. Morocco to Pakistan, emphasis on Iran, Egypt, and MENA broadly; women and space; veiling; women and religion; women and law; women and political freedoms, access to education and jobs, as social or political mobilizers, and women and the state (as subjects and as objects). University of Florida

13. Arab-Israeli Conflict. Comparative-Historical beginning 1834, 1881, and the 20th century; 1910s as formative; inter-state wars; guerrilla wars; social mobilization; nationalism; the Oslo peace process; the decline of the peace process; and the rise of new alliances. Taught annually or twice annually for more than a decade. And B, Arab-Israeli Conflict: Ideologies, taught once. University of Florida

14. Israel: Politics and Society. Government and politics of Israel (e.g., political institutions, basic branches, the basic laws, and single-district national level versus districts for local level politics); religion and politics including: the place of religion in state and society, women and politics, the Status Quo Agreements, and on occasion addresses Kosher Laws; Judicial politics and constitutional jurisprudence (e.g., the development of civil and human rights, and the structure of the court system); constitutional biography; may address the kibbutz movement; the women’s movement (may address reproductive politics), and social movements more broadly; and ethnic politics and communities in Israel (e.g., internal and cross-community relations, developments, and dynamics). University of Florida

15. Women and Politics in Israel. Women, fertility, and the state; social and political mobilization; public office; religion and gender; and law & society. University of Florida

16. Judaism, Law, and Society. Jewish law and communities in historical context; legal principles in Jewish law according to several scholars: Justice, Equality, Covenant; religious and secular contexts (case studies); judicial institutions in Israel as relate to religion; civil rights, human rights, and constitutionalism in Israel; judicial biography; legal theory in context; and the Spirit of Jewish law as expressed and outlined by several scholars including Cohn, Elon, as well as scholars of Jewish law in historical and contemporary contexts. University of Florida

17. Israel: Law, State, and Society. New course Spring 2025. The long constitutional tradition (e.g., Claude Klein), and the 1992 constitutional revolution; judicial review of executive acts, 1969; judicial review of legislation, 1992; the spirit of Jewish law, secular and religious, as defined by several Israeli and American scholars; case studies and themes in law, religion, and politics in Israel, including women and gender, ethnic politics, and Orthodox community rights and dynamics; and women's rights. Taught previously under a different title with similar and other themes (16. Judaism, Law, and Society; this course allows full focus on law, state, and society in one context). University of Florida

18. The Rule of Law in the Middle East and North Africa. New course Spring 2025. The rule of law, definitions, and social theory; religion and law; democratization and participatory politics; religious minorities; women's rights and freedoms; conservative religious feminism; "banditry"; “the state” in MENA: institutional design(s), regime types, and relationship(s) with society and communities; MENA courts and administrative authorities; and social movements, especially the Arab Spring. University of Florida

Graduate:

19. Global Media and International Communication. Spring 2026, M.A. and Ph.D. level. Theories regarding what is a variable (qualitative and quantitative epistemological and methodological paradigms); basics of social analysis (qualitative, critical analysis); analyzing without reverting to auto-skepticism; social hierarchies; representation; who rules?; cultures, religion, and politics; communities; protest, including Generation-Z protests; social movements, including the Arab Spring; Media professionals as ethnographers; identities; representing identities; ethics, regulation, and Media norms; case studies from around the world (primarily in Asia) regarding Media products, collaborations, cooperative works, interactions, and power; soft diplomacy; an emphasis on applying the theories and case studies to building global or international awareness of national and community-level products, cultures, and values; and an emphasis on applying the theories or studies to film through a peer collaboration project. Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, Nepal

20. Global Media and International Communication. Spring 2026, M.A. level. Theories of the global, the local, and theories of international communication. Case studies relating to specific themes primarily located in Asia including: identities; locality and local cultures; political communication; soft diplomacy; what counts as “domination;” disaggregating the “who” in academic debates regarding Media hegemonies and domination, including their various local origins (in different places, West and East, North and South, and among whom: the state, business elites, corporations, families, individuals, etc.?); cooperation and collaboration in international Media relationships; representation (local cultures and values, business interests, government interests, national interests, corporate conglomerates, individuals, and family interests, etc.); agenda setting; Media framing; power; representations of women, gender, and privacy (e.g., independence, coexistence, and obscenity in international Media); ethics, regulation, governance, self-regulation, and Media norms; an emphasis on applying the theories and case studies to building global or international awareness of national and community-level products, cultures, and values; and an emphasis on applying the theories or studies to film through a peer collaboration project. Kathmandu University, Lalitpur and Kavre, Nepal

21. Modern Middle East Politics. Comparative, Historical, Institutional, and Social. Migration and mobility (political-geographical); revolutions and war, especially Iran, the Arab Spring, and may address Kurds; identities, ethnicity, and social actors; major political institutions and types; gender politics, women’s mobilization, and veiling as symbol and spatial marker/boundary; East-West, traditional-modern, and other competing ideas and epistemologies; authoritarianism, symbols, and democratization; historical tribal confederations as well as contemporary formations; Islam: tradition, modernism, fundamentalism, and spiritualism; political economy, re: business social actors, and youth and opportunities; social and spatial boundaries; micro-level and grassroots analysis. One course included 7 guest speakers from amongst our primary authors: Zoom addresses and Q&A were organized with the speakers nationally and from abroad. (Thank you to those participants!) University of Florida

22. Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective. Comparative, Historical, and International. Works in Religion; Social Theory, Qualitative Methods; Homo religiosus and axis mundi; and the ritual process and implications for ritual and politics. Case studies: religion and secularism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Catholicism in Italy; religion and state in China; messianism in Israel; religion, secularism, and the state in comparative and international perspective; and shorter case studies in religion and politics in Europe, the Sahel (Africa), South Asia, and East Asia. University of Florida

23. Case, Culture, and Politics. Comparative-Historical, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, and Ethnography. Counts as a Methods course. Exemplary fieldwork-based case study research relating to cultural, political-ethnographic, discursive, social, and other qualitative research and analysis. Linking case studies with scientific method and social theory; weapons of the weak and power; ritual politics; nationalism, official nationalism, and communities; and tribes, traditionalism, and religion versus (and within) modernist and secular politics, Broadly international and cross-national. University of Florida

24. Field Methods and Grant Writing. Political ethnography: strategies, preparation, extents, and limits; in-depth interviews and life-stories methods, patterns, demographics; survey construction, short interviews, language, and sensitive questions; case studies and examples in classical field methods political science and cross-disciplinary works; writing for national-level, cross-disciplinary fellowships. University of Florida

25. Law, State, and Society in Comparative Perspective. Comparative, International, Political Institutions, and Social. Comparative judicial politics; state-society relations in the context of the judiciary; constitutional politics and bills of rights; judicial autonomy; and courts in Pakistan, Europe, Japan, Brazil, Israel, and several cases in the British Commonwealth. University of Florida

26. Women and Politics. Comparative and International; gender politics in comparative perspective; case studies; political ethnography; feminist ethnography; social theory; and multiple regions, including South Asia and MENA. University of Florida

Reviewer

Comparative Political Studies

Comparative Politics

Israel Law Review

Journal of Church and State

Law and History Review

Law and Social Inquiry

Law and Society Review

Middle East Journal

New England Journal of Political Science

Oxford University Press

Perspectives on Politics

Political Research Quarterly

Political Science Review

Politics and Religion

Religion, State, and Society

Religions

Signs

Studies in Law, Politics and Society

Academic Studies Press

American Judicature Society

Collegiate (faculty) fellowship competitions from around the U.S.

University of Washington Press

University of Wisconsin Press

Hobbies and Personal Interests

Creative Works

One book of poetry considered for the 2013 Walt Whitman Poetry Prize/Award Contest, Academy of American Poets. One screen play and several musicals. Self-published several collections of short stories, plays, and poetry (currently out of print)

Other

·        Walking/hiking; swimming; canoeing; bicycling (local); light weights; and equestrian sports

·        Creative writing; song writing (piano and electric piano, Mezzo voice); musicals; plays; dialogues; and poetry. (One past creative writing blog with over 43,000 likes from Asia, Africa, South America, North America, and Europe)

References

References are available upon request