Images: Kathmandu Valley, all photos by Patricia Sohn, copyright (c) 2025 by Patricia Sohn. All rights reserved.

Interests in the social and cultural sides of state and society relations, historical institutional analysis, and linking qualitative research and analysis with basic steps of scientific method. Interests (although not expertise) in political sociology (especially French political sociology, hermeneutics, and semiotics). Interests, cross-disciplinary training, and eperience in political ethnography as curtailed by respect for local privacies.