Dr. Patricia Sohn, Ph.D.
Visiting Faculty, Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (KU-NCCS)
School of Arts, Kathmandu University, Hatiban, Lalitpur, P.B. No. 6250; Phone: 0977-1-5251294, 0977-1-5251306, Email: nccs@ku.edu.np. Patricia Sohn contact information: Cell: +1 (352) 443-3774 (WhatsApp and text only); Email: patriciajsohn@gmail.com, pjwoods07@gmail.com, pjwoods07@hotmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-9722. AKA: Woods (to 2017); Keitt (1988-1990).
FIELDS: Comparative Politics; and Methods (qualitative: research design, field methods, observations, political ethnography, and interviews)
DISCIPLINES, SUB-FIELDS, REGIONS:
Political Science; Judaism and Politics (international); Islam and Politics (international); Comparative Judicial Politics (international, institutions not law); Near and Middle East (MENA) culture and politics; Asian perspectival politics and popular or mass market film
FELLOWSHIPS AND COMMITTEES:
National Fellowships or Grants, and national-level Committee work, see pages 2 and 3
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
· Visiting Faculty (associate professor level), KU-NCCS, Kathmandu University, September 2025 - present
· Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, August 2010 – September 2025; and Assistant Professor (tenure track), August 2001 – August 2010. Graduate Faculty, May 2002 – September 2025
· Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, January 2003-June 2004.
Unpaid (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 the Sawyer Seminar (Samuel Huntington and Eva Bellin), Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of Government.
EDUCATION
· University of Washington, August 2001, 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, Michael McCann, Nancy Hartsock, Christine Di Stefano
· Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999-2000
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.
· Tel Aviv University, January 1997 – June 1997
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).
· University of Florida, M.A. 1991. 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, 1991. Pages, ix, 216 pages; includes bibliographical references.
· University of Florida, B.A. 1989, Religion (Comparative: Judaism and Islam)
Phi Beta Kappa [Patricia Keitt], Phi Kappa Phi
Languages
· Native speaker and writer: American English
· Advanced:
French (A-/B+ level training plus tutoring and substantive courses in French; very good spoken francophone French, Middle Eastern and African); interviewing
Hebrew (H-level training plus specialized tutoring; auditing course in Hebrew [not recorded]; some training in literature; spoken basic proficiency); interviewing
Arabic (primarily Modern Standard written & philological method; approximately 4 2/3 years training including Arabic linguistics; very little spoken)
· Elementary training (1st year or more, and rudimentary linguistic knowledge): Palestinian colloquial Arabic, Turkish, German, Haitian Creole, Italian, and Spanish. Currently informally studying Filipino.
· Training locations: University of Washington, Seattle; University of Haifa, Israel; Bir Zeit University, West Bank; Paris-I-Sorbonne, France; University of Florida, Gainesville; Caye Mère French Catholic Girls Day School, Jacmel, Haiti (one year, 1977-1978); and/or private or other courses (Italian and Spanish).
· Culture, politics, and institutions (including subaltern and micro-level state-society relations & society and institutions, comparative and international)
· Religion and politics (comparative and international, including religion and law)
· Judicial institutions (comparative and international judicial institutions; judicial-executive relations; civil-domestic and human-international rights; freedom of religion; religion and law; and women’s rights)
· Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Israel, Arab-Jewish relations, and Palestinians
· Asian perspectives and popular (e.g., mass market) film, Asian ritual politics and performativity, religion and politics
· French political sociology (developing interest as applied to qualitative case study research, not expertise)
MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND 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 Science, 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, ENS-Cachan, France, May 2004.
· Dissertation Grant, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences (NSF-SES#9906136, Co-PI, Woods [Sohn] 1999)
· Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1999-2000 [Woods]
· Social Science Research Council competitive, special-topics Dissertation Workshop Fellow, Marrakech, Morocco, July 1999 [Woods]
· Dorot Foundation research award, 1999-2000
· Social Science Research Council Near and Middle East Pre-dissertation Award, 1997 [Woods]
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 approximately four dozen blog pieces, and curator of 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 [Woods]
· Program Committee, Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, 2010
· Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation, Spring 2010 [Woods]
· 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 and 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, 1996-2000
· Secretariat Liaison, Graduate Student Organization, Middle East Studies Association, calendar year 1995
INTRAMURAL AWARDS AND HONORS
§ Great Teaching Certificate, University of Florida, February 2025
§ Student Focused Teaching Badge, University of Florida, February 2025
§ Digital Teaching Badge, University of Florida, January 2025
§ Four - Affordable UF Badges (e.g., affordable texts), for courses in 2023 and 2024
§ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Funds, August 2021
§ Quest 1 Trial 1 Course Development Award and Instructor, Spring 2019
§ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sabbatical (competitive), Spring 2015
§ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel funds, University of Florida, Spring 2012 (declined)
§ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel funds, University of Florida, Spring 2009
§ Center for Jewish Studies Course Development Grant, 2005-2006
§ Department of Political Science Summer Research Award, 2005
§ Nominee, College Teaching Award, University of Florida, Fall 2003
§ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, University of Florida, October 2002
§ Department of Political Science Summer Research Grant, University of Florida, Summer 2002
§ University of Washington Graduate School Teaching Fellowship, Spring 1998
§ Middle East Center Research Award, University of Washington, Summer 1995
§ Hall-Ammerer-WRF Graduate Fellowship Award, University of Washington, 1994-1997
INTRAMURAL 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
· Fulbright Campus Interviews, University of Florida, Autumn 2023
· Undergraduate Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies, 2021-2023
· Chair, Academic Policy Council, 2018-2019
· Member, Academic Policy Council (a Faculty Senate Council), 2022-2023, 2017-2020
· Member, University Curriculum Committee, 2019-2022
· Faculty Senator, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 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 UFIC, 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 Florida Foundation on behalf of Near and Middle East Working Group at request of UFIC Dean, Spring and Summer 2008
· Madelyn Lockhart Faculty Development Award Committee, Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Florida, Fall 2006
· Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison Officer, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle East Studies, University of Washington. Completed a faculty and graduate student survey, and the initial text for a 10-year national program review
PUBLICATIONS
Current Research / In Progress
Under contract. Patricia Sohn, Ritual and Perspectival Politics in Asian Popular Film. De Gruyter Press for manuscript submission on or before April 2027.
Guest Editor, Religions (MDPI), special issue:: “Religion and Politics: Ritual, Performativity, and (Political) Theatre in Comparative-Historical and International Perspective” (manuscripts due January 15, 2026).
Books
1. 2022. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, eds. Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics. University of Michigan Press. Sixteen chapters plus section introductions by religion and region.
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. 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.
Dissertation and Thesis
4. Patricia Woods. Courting the Court: Social Visions, State Authority, and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel. University of Washington. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2001 (317 pages includes glossary, references, two appendices, and curriculum vitae). FULL TEXT here. Available in hardcover from ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
5. Woods, Patricia J. “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, 1991 (225 pages including three glossaries, appendix, and bibliographical references).
Mini-Symposia (Journal Special Issues):
6. Lisa Hilbink and Patricia J. Woods, editors, “Judicial Empowerment in Comparative Perspective: Ideas and Interests,” a Mini Symposium of Political Research Quarterly, 62:4 (December 2009): 745-839. (introductory article by Patricia J. Woods and Lisa Hilbink)
7. Liora Israël, Patricia Woods, Jayanth Krishnan, Stephen Meili, Marie-Aude Beernaert, Katia Weidenfeld, Bruno Milly, and François Chazel, “La justice comme espace politique. Trois études de cas: Israël, Inde, Argentine” a special issue of Droit et Société 3:55 (2003): 595-780.
E-Textbook
8. Patricia Sohn, editor, Qualitative Comparative Politics: Formative Texts and Case Studies, Kendall Hunt Publishers (Higher Education Series), 2017; introductory chapter and chapter introductions by Patricia Sohn. 278 pages.
Articles and Chapters
9. 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” Field Methods 15:1 (February): 25-50.
10. 2003. Patricia J. Woods, “Normes juridiques et changement politique en Israël,” as part of a mini-symposium in Droit et Société 55:3 (December): 605-626.
11. 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, ed., Cambridge University Press.
12. 2004. Patricia J. Woods, "It’s Israeli After All: A Survey of Israeli Women’s Movement Volunteers" Israel Studies Forum 19:2 (April).
13. 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.
14. 2008. Patricia J. Woods and Scott W. Barclay, "Cause Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators with And Against the State: Symbiosis or Opposition?" Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 45: 203-234.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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, ed. University of Washington Press.
18. 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), edited by Frederick Greenspahn. New York University Press.
19. 2017. Patricia J. Woods, “Fault Lines” in The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Cambridge Companions to Religion Series), edited by Christine Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
20. 2022. Patricia Sohn and Simone Raudino, “Editors’ Introduction: Religion and Politics” in Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
21. 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, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Open Access Research or Policy Articles:
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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 (special issue, Peace, Politics, and Religion: Volume II) 14 (11): 1362.
Research or Policy, Open-Access Disciplinary Magazine (“website”):
25. 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).
26. 2022. Patricia Sohn, “The Color of Institutions: Unity, Morality, or Decay? A Personal Reflection” in E-International Relations: Articles, June 22 (Research).
27. 2023. Patricia Sohn, “United Moderate Religions vs. Secular and Religious Extremes?” in E-International Relations: Articles, April 3 (Research).
28. 2023. Patricia Sohn, “Inclusiveness, Pedagogy, Identity, Ideology, and the Epistemology of the Professor” in E-International Relations: Articles, May 13 (Pedagogy).
29. 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.)
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.)
30. 2024. “Opinion – On Gerontology” in E-International Relations, Articles, October 10 (Policy).
31. 2024. “Opinion – Habitus and the 2024 US Presidential Election” in E-International Relations: Articles, November 10 (Policy).
32. 2025. “Opinion – Trump’s Coronation: The New Romanov Century” in E-International Relations, Articles, January 27 (Policy).
33. Patricia Sohn. 2025. “Opinion – Reflections on the Global Sex Trade and the War in Ukraine” in E-International Relations, Articles. March 7. (Policy.)
Book Reviews
34. 1995. Staughton Lynd, Sam Bahour and Alice Lynd, eds. Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians. (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1994) MELA Notes: Middle East Librarians Association (1995): 73-74. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
35. 1996. Harvey Goldberg, ed. Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.) New Perspectives on Turkey 15 (Fall): 147-149. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
36. 1997. Gad Barzilai, Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the Middle East. (Albany, NY: State University of Israel Press, 1996.) Middle East Journal 51:3 (Summer): 448-450. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
37. 1998. Yael Yishai, Between the Flag and the Banner: Women in Israeli Politics. (Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1997.) Israel Studies Bulletin 13:2 (Spring): 33-34. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
38. 1999. Ilana Kaufman. Arab National Communism in the Jewish State. (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997.) In Shofar 17:4 (Summer): 117-119. Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
39. 1999. Lila Abu-Lughod. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.) In New Perspectives on Turkey 18 (Fall). Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
40. 2016. Kent F. Schull, M. Safa Saraçoğlu, and Robert Zens, eds. Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1:1 (May) 83-88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jims.1.1.08 Reviewed by Patricia J. Woods.
Articles or Interviews
41. 2008. Patricia J. `Woods, “Judicial Power and National Politics” in Secular Culture and Ideas, a publication of JBooks, lead article, July.
42. 2016. Interview – Prince El-Waleed M. Madibo, conducted by Patricia Woods. E-International Relations, December 3.
Independent Blog, The Arena: People and Politics
Twenty articles by self and outside contributors, 2019-2021 (18 new essays, see link at blog title)
Curator (e.g., guest editor) and Founder, “Subaltern States” for E-International Relations (http://e-ir.info), October 2016 to February 2019; approximately two articles per month for that period by self or contributors; solicited articles from, and language or style editing of, contributions from domestic and international scholars; approximately four blog dozen pieces by self. When blog page closed, all essays were moved to the Articles page. Highest number of views for any one, 14,089 views, as of May 6, 2025.
43. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Introducing ‘Subaltern States’” in E-International Relations, October 20.
44. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism” in E-International Relations, October 20.
45. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Income Inequality & Subaltern America: Thoughts for U.S. Election Day” in E-International Relations, October 27.
46. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Explaining the Donald Trump Victory” in E-International Relations, November 9 (2,664 views as of May 6, 2025).
47. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Pacifism, Just War and Civil Liberties in a Multicultural Age” in E-International Relations, November 11.
48. 2016, Patricia Sohn, “Methods War: How Ideas Matter within Political Science” in E-International Relations, November 24.
49. 2016, Patricia Sohn, “Inhabiting Orthodoxy: Discussing Islam and Feminism, Continued” in E-International Relations, December 9.
50. 2016. Patricia Sohn, “Fourteen Points on Local Courts in the U.S.” in E-International Relations, December 27.
51. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Mainstream Film and the Middle East” in E-International Relations, January 21.
52. 2017, Patricia Sohn, “The War of the Words: Trump and the Left” in E-International Relations, March 3.
53. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Symbolic Violence and Post-Election USA: A Parable” in E-International Relations, March 16.
54. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Want a Scapegoat? Blame Serbia! (a Satire)” in E-International Relations, March 31.
55. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Institutions Matter, Or, What I Learned Sleeping with Lions in Kenya” in E-International Relations, April 6.
56. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Has the U.S. Become a Single-Party Regime?” In E-International Relations, April 20.
57. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Faith and Good Works Party – In My (Utopian) Dreams” in E-International Relations, April 28.
58. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Bombing Syria, Isis, and How We Got Here” in E-International Relations, May 4.
59. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What I Learned Fending off Wild Camels in Pamukkale (A Travelogue).” In E-International Relations, May 11.
60. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Which T.V. Show or Movie Does This World Most Resemble?” in E-International Relations, May 19.
61. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Village Knows Better, and Other Forms of Mob Rule” in E-International Relations, June 2.
62. 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.
63. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What Do We Mean by ‘Local People’? The Palestinian Case.” In E-International Relations, June 23.
64. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Is Trump the New Multicultural Internationalist?” in E-International Relations, July 21.
65. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “What Do Karl Marx, Napoleon, and the Majlis Have in Common?” in E-International Relations, September 29.
66. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Going Grassroots: Visiting the Foreign Locales of Arkansas and Southwest Texas” in E-International Relations, October 19.
67. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “The Nazi Movement Today: Our Cousins, Ourselves” in E-International Relations, October 26.
68. 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).
69. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “10th Anniversary Post – Why Faculty Use Blogs” in E-International Relations, December 17.
70. 2017. Patricia Sohn, “Bounty≠Consumerism: An International, Aesthetic Christmas” in E-International Relations, December 24.
71. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “A 21-year old Reform Movement on the Brink of Success” in E-International Relations, January 26.
72. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Why States-Rights States Can Take Responsibility for Their Own Catastrophes” in E-International Relations, February 23.
73. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “The Path to Authoritarianism: How do we get there?!” in E-International Relations, March 8.
74. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Why Trump’s Meeting with North Korean Matters: The Asia-Middle East Connection” in E-International Relations, May 18.
75. 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.
76. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “If There Was a Time to Support Reformists in Iran, It’s Now” in E-International Relations, May 24.
77. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “A Bit of Bedouin Perspective on World Politics Today” in E-International Relations, August 22.
78. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Border Crossings: Our Criminals, Their Criminals, and ‘Good Fences’” in E-International Relations, September 1.
79. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Fiction, Film & Empiricism: Comparative Politics as Action and Adventure” in E-International Relations, September 29.
80. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “International Travel is a Risky Business: Research, Study, & Proselytizing” in E-International Relations, October 21.
81. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “The Theatre of Politics: Politics as Oscar Broadway” in E-International Relations, November 2.
82. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “What is Nationalism? A Nation? A Nationalist?” in E-International Relations, November 16 (14,089 views as of May 6, 2025).
83. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Courts: The Quagmire”in E-International Relations, November 30.
84. 2018. Patricia Sohn, “Habitus: Why Positive Law is Better than Originalism or Post-Modernism in Law” in E-International Relations, December 15.
85. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “Aquaman: A New Year Parable in Race and Ethnicity” in E-International Relations, January 12.
86. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Pre-Modernism, or, the Rural-Urban Divide” in E-International Relations, January 25.
87. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “J’accuse! The Case for Traditional Capitalism” in E-International Relations, February 9.
88. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “A Rationale for Pluralism, The Rural, Remote Peasant” in E-International Relations, February 15.
89. 2019. Patricia Sohn, “Women Acquitting Themselves Well” in E-International Relations, February 15.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOLARLY INSTITUTIONS
1. “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, 2023.
2. "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 2014.
3. "Religion as Resistance to the (Secular) Nation-State” presented to a conference entitled, Judicial Politics and the Accommodation of Religious Minorities, University of Toronto, April 2011.
4. “The Women’s Movement and Religious Authorities in Israel” presented to the Jackson School of International Studies, Program in Jewish Studies series, New Interpretations of Israel: Politics, Society, Culture & Human Rights, University of Washington, March 11, 2008.
5. “Ethnic Politics and Women’s Movement Mobilization in Israel: The Role of Ideas” presented to the conference, Policy from the Grassroots: How Social Forces Shackle and Transform Policymakers organized in honor of Joel S. Migdal, University of Washington, February 25-26, 2007.
6. “Contentious Politics in the Israeli Women’s Movement” presented to the international conference, Contentious Politics in Israel: Past and Present, sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, October 18-19, 2006.
7. "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, 2005.
8. “Legal Norms, Political Change, and Judicial Community” invited presentation to the Group d’Analyse des Politiques Publiques, École Normale Supérieur - Cachan, Cachan, France, May 2004.
9. “Conflicting Visions: Social Movements and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel” invited presentation, the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, October 14, 2003.
10. “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, 2003.
11. “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, 2003.
12. “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” presented to the Cause Lawyering III Workshop, Cachan, France, October 11-14, 2002, organized by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds.
13. “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, September 2000.
14. “Researching Courts and Legal Community in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellows Workshop, Amsterdam, October 2000.
15. “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 1999.
16. “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 Conference, Cairo, March 1997.
17. “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’ Conference, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, March 20, 2009.
PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES
18. 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. Tuesday, August 20, 2024.
19. “Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics,” Roundtable, American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2022 (Roundtable organized by Patricia Sohn; organized and attended by other participants; not attended by self due to Covid-related travel restrictions).
20. “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, June 2022 [organized by self; cancelled due to lack of participants related to Covid travel restrictions].
21. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, “Beyond the Death of God” presented to the European Association for the Study of Religion, Pisa, Italy, August/September 2021.
22. Pre-Organized Panel and Individual Paper for July 2020 International Political Science Association conference, Liston, Portugal, was postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 impact on international travel and conferences (organized by Patricia Sohn) (panel was ultimately cancelled).
23. Patricia Sohn and Esther Carmel-Hakim, “Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Peace and Interfaith Coexistence: From Formal Workshops to Cooking Kitchens” to be presented to the Mid-West Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2019.
24. “Human Rights in Israel” presented to the conference, 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, 2018.
25. “Convenor” (organizer) and Co-Discussant, panel, Religion and Law, organized for the Research Committee (RC09) on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July 2016.
26. “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 2016.
27. 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, July 2016.
28. “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 2015.
29. “The Israeli Women's Movement and Israeli Legal Culture” presented to the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December 2013.
30. “Doing Daily Battle in Israel: Women's Political Mobilization” presented to the American Political Science Association annual conference, Seattle, WA, September 2011.
31. “Women’s Political Resistance in Israel,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, June 2011.
32. “The Ideational Foundations of Israel’s ‘Constitutional Revolution,’” International Political Science Association, Comparative Judicial Studies section, Bologna, Italy, June 2010. Paper distributed in my absence (unable to attend due to a conflict with a research trip).
33. Organizer, organized panel, A Comparative Analysis of Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis, American Political Science Association, August 2007.
34. “The Judicial Construction of Liberal Rights and Judicial Power: The Case of Israel,” presented to the American Political Science Association as part of an organized panel, “A Comparative Analysis of Ran Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis.”
35. “Strategic Alliances and the Homogenizing Nation-State: Religion, Family, and Tribe in Iraq and Israel” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 2007, and to the University of Florida Department of Political Science Research Colloquium, February 2007.
36. Chair and Discussant, Organized Panel on Citizenship and Civic Participation, Law and Society Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, July 6, 2006.
37. “Religion and the Nation-State: Competing Authorities in Israel and Iraq” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Banff, Canada, May 30, 2006.
38. “Israel’s Court-Driven Constitutional Revolution” presented to the American Political Science Association panel on Courts and Comparative Democratization, September 3, 2005.
39. “The Israel High Court and Its Constitutional Revolution: History and Community” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 2005.
40. “Weak Ties, Judicial Power, and the Role of the Judiciary in a Democracy” presented to the American Political Science Association, September 2004.
41. Discussant, Comparative Politics Theme Panel, “Democratization and Judicial Reform,” American Political Science Association Conference, September 2004.
42. "Cause Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators for the State" co-authored with Scott W. Barclay, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, presented to the Law and Society Association, June 2003.
43. “Tracing Micro-Processes: Formal and Informal Interactions within the Judicial Community in Israel” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, San Diego, California, April 2003.
44. “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” presented to the Cause Lawyering III Workshop, Cachan, France, October 11-14, 2002, organized by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds.
45. “The Irony of State Incorporation” presented to the American Political Science Association Religion and Politics section, August 2002.
46. “Cause Lawyers, Rights Revolution, and Judicial Power” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Vail, Colorado, May 2002.
47. "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, B.C., May 2002.
48. “Opportunities and Influence: The Case of a Small Social Movement and the Israel High Court of Justice” presented to the American Political Science Association, September 2000.
49. “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, November 1999.
50. “Operationalizing Influence: The Women’s Movement and the High Court in Israel” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 1999.
51. “Specifying Standpoint: Coalition, Difference, and Conflict in the Israeli Women’s Movement” presented to the Middle East Studies Association, December 1998.
52. "New Constituencies, Independent Judiciaries: The Women's Movement and the Religious Law Debates" presented to the Association for Israel Studies, June 1998.
53. "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, November 1997.
54. "Women in Israel: The Nexus of Religion, Politics and Law" presented to the Middle East Studies Association, December 1995.
ORGANIZED VISITS OR INTERNATIONAL ZOOM TALKS
Organized over a dozen scholar talks/visits, most international and a few domestic, 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. See Recent Activities link for more information.
RECENT ACTIVITES Please see link. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Available upon request. First departmental service: Department Scribe, AY 2001-2002.
COURSES
Courses center upon the development of analytical reading and public speaking skills on academic texts and themes, as well as moving toward formal and professional writing (to the extent possible from the student’s starting point; e.g., analytical writing in political analysis, graduate and undergraduate). This teaching method draws upon a “great texts” approach. Sixteen (distinct) undergraduate courses at of which ten developed by self, including two new in Spring 2025. Have developed six graduate seminars
Undergraduate:
1. Reading in Social Sciences, a cross-disciplinary 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)
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) (this course and the remaining, 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)
4. Political Change and Legal Development (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, India, Israel, and several cases in the British Commonwealth)
5. Comparative Law and Courts (judicial institutions in comparative and international perspective, comparative judicial and constitutional politics, judicial autonomy, Weber on bureaucracy, judicial-executive relations, courts in Europe, MENA, China, Japan, and elsewhere)
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]; 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, either 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 / former-Soviet Bloc. Or, group semester project can be conducted by comparative politics theme with each student focusing on one country (not limited to region): 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 / checks and balances; authoritarianism; and the welfare state in comparative perspective)
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)
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 local 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?)
9. Culture and Politics: Jews and Muslims (political phenomenology: paradigmatic 20th century macro-level experiences, Comparative, Historical, and International, e.g., Gerges on Qutb and Nasser to R. Lau and Hannah Arendt on the Holocaust)
10. Judaism and Politics (Comparative and International; Judaism and law; Jewish feminism; several major sets of Jewish experiences of the 20th century, including North Africa, Europe, Latin America, and China; and several critical 20th century social theorists relating to issues of community, the Other, Subject and Object (Buber, Levinas, Said, Bourdieu)
11. Israel: Religion and Politics (liberal democracy, religion, and ethnic communities; women’s agency among Orthodox communities; prophetic and messianic movements; and the spirit of Jewish law)
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, and women and the state as subjects and as objects)
13. Arab-Israeli Conflict A (Comparative-Historical beginning 1834, 1881, and 20th century; popular course, taught twice yearly for several years; 1910s as formative; inter-state wars; guerrilla wars; social mobilization; nationalism; peace process; and decline of the peace process); and B (Ideologies, taught once)
14. Israel: Politics and Society (judicial politics and constitutional jurisprudence; Kosher laws; government and politics of Israel; religion and politics; Supreme Court biography; kibbutz movement; and social movements)
15. Women and Politics in Israel (women, fertility, and the state; social and political mobilization; public office; religion and gender; and law & society)
16. Judaism, Law, and Society (Jewish law and communities in historical context; legal principles in Jewish law, Justice, Equality, Covenant; religious and secular contexts; judicial institutions; civil rights, human rights, and constitutionalism in Israel; judicial biography; and legal theory in context)
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; and women's rights) (taught previously under a different title with similar and other themes)
18. The Rule of Law in the Middle East and North Africa (new course Spring 2025; the rule of law, definitions, social theory; religion and law; democratization and participatory politics; religious minorities; women's rights and freedoms; conservative religious feminism; "banditry"; and MENA courts and administrative authorities)
Graduate:
19. Modern Middle East Politics (Comparative, Historical, Institutional, and Social; migration and mobility [political-geographical]; revolutions and war, especially Iran, the Arab Spring, and Kurds; identities, ethnicity, social actors, and political institutions; gender politics, women’s mobilization, and veiling as symbol and spatial marker/boundary; East-West, traditional-modern, and competing ideas and epistemologies; authoritarianism, symbols, democratization; historical tribal confederations as well as contemporary formations; Islam: tradition, modernism, fundamentalism, spiritualism; political economy, re: business social actors, and youth & opportunities; social and spatial boundaries; micro-level and grassroots analysis)
20. Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Comparative, Historical, and International; Works in Religion; Social Theory, Qualitative Methods; Homo religious and axis mundi; the ritual process and implications for ritual and politics; religion and secularism in the Middle East and North Africa [MENA]; Catholicism in Italy; religion and state in China; messianism in Israel and Palestine; religion, secularism, and the state in comparative and international perspective; and case studies in religion and politics in the Sahel (Africa), South Asia, Europe, MENA, and East Asia (including China)
21. Case Study, Culture, and Politics (Comparative-Historical, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods; 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; includes research conducted in the U.S., Southeast Asia, MENA)
22. 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; proposal writing for national-level, cross-disciplinary fellowships)
23. Law, State, and Society in Comparative Perspective (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)
24. Women and Politics (Comparative, Historical, and International; gender politics in comparative perspective; case studies, political ethnography; feminist ethnography; multiple themes; social theory; and multiple regions, including South Asia and MENA)
REVIEWER
Political Science Review; Religion, State, and Society; Comparative Political Studies; Comparative Politics; Political Research Quarterly; Law and History Review; Israel Law Review; Law and Society Review; Perspectives on Politics; New England Journal of Political Science; Law and Social Inquiry; Studies in Law, Politics and Society; Signs; Middle East Journal; Politics and Religion; Journal of Church and State; Religions. Oxford University Press; University of Washington Press; University of Wisconsin Press; the American Judicature Society; and collegiate (faculty) fellowship competitions
CREATIVE WORKS
Self-published several collections of short stories, plays, and poetry (currently out of print). One book of poetry considered for the 2013 Walt Whitman Poetry Prize / Award Conest, Academy of American Poets. One screen play and several musicals.
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Creative writing, song writing, musicals, and poetry. Walking/hiking; swimming; bicycling; weight lifting; and equestrian sports. Feng shui; household art; Asian art; Asian hardwoods work; and ceramics. International fusion, Asian, and Mediterranean cuisines and cooking (informal blog with over 7,700 followers primarily from Asia).
REFERENCES
Available upon request.