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Dr. Patricia J. Sohn, Ph.D. (Patricia or Patty)

Address available upon request, U.S.A. Cell Phone and WhatsApp: available upon request. Email: patriciajsohn@gmail.com. Full Curriculum Vitae, patriciajsohn.com/full-vitae

Patricia Janice Sohn, AKA: Patricia J. Woods (to 2017, all publications and affiliations); Patricia Woods Keitt (1988-1990, on some certificates or diplomas). Eyes: Green. Hair: Ash Brown (Greying). Height: 5’6”. Religion: Buddhist (Tibetan-Mahayana). Heritage: Eur-Asian, e.g., Filipina-American, and Northern and Southern Europe. Born November 25, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. Citizenship: USA. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-9722

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Career Goals:  To employ the service skills and mission of an important public service oriented corporation, organization, or university. Seeking to join and contribute to a good organization that serves the public. Open to employment opportunities in the U.S.A., the Middle East and North Africa, and in Asia (excluding conflict zones).

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Professional Appointments/Job Experience

  • 2025 – 2026. Visiting Faculty, Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research, Kathmandu University, Hattiban, Lalitpur and Dhulikhel, Kavre, NEPAL, September to August.

  • 2010 – 2025. Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, August 2010 – September 2025.

  • 2003 – 2004. Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. January 2003 to June 2004 (on Research Leave, and Leave, from the University of Florida).

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

Experience (all Patricia J. Woods, same social security number)

·        1997 – 2001. Graduate Teaching Assistant or Instructor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  Teaching Assistant or solo Instructor for three courses during this period. ‍

·        1996 – 1999. Graduate Student Liaison Officer, IDS – Near and Middle East Ph.D. Program, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Attended Middle East Center faculty meetings, maintained two-way communication between graduate students and faculty, conducted a survey of graduate students and faculty, and penned the first draft of a 10-year program review for the Ph.D. program. Supervisor, Professor and Director Jere Bacharach.

·        1992. Research Assistant, Department of Religion, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Professor James Mueller. Clerical work on his 1993 co-edited volume of the Oxford University Press Edition of the Bible (comparing two translations of the Apocrypha in English for his translation work). Supervisor, Professor James Mueller.

·        Summer 1990 and Summer 1991. Graduate Assistant, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Teaching Religion in the Public Schools, Department of Religion, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Teaching assistant for Classical Judaism, Introduction to Islam, and Introduction to Christianity. Supervisors, Professors Barry Mesch and Azim Nanji, respectively.

·        1989-1991. Graduate Assistant, Department of Religion, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Teaching assistant for Classical Judaism, Introduction to Islam, and Religions of Africa. Editing and periodic reception work. Supervisors, Professor Barry Mesch, 1989-1990; Professor Azim Nanji, 1990-1991.

·        1988-1989. Assistant to the Administrative Secretary, Department of Biochemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Payroll processing, reviewing national grant proposals, telephone reception. Supervisor, Regina.

·        1986. Night Auditor and Day Hotel Clerk, Red Roof Inn, Hilton Head, GA (Summer). Supervisor, Manager and Assistant Manager.

Publications

See curriculum vitae.

Service, Awards, and Fellowships or Grants

·        Fulbright National Committee, Fulbright U.S. Student Program (four years, non-consecutive)

·        National Science Foundation (D.C.) fellowship/research panel reviewer

·        Social Science Research Council (NY) fellowship/research panel reviewer

·        Academic Policy Council Chair, University of Florida (see vitae)

·        Senate Steering Committee, University of Florida (see vitae)

·        Faculty Senator, University of Florida (see vitae for more)

·        Curriculum Committee Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Florida (see vitae)

·        Research Fellowship Recipient: National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Dissertation Grant (#9906136, Patricia J. Woods, Co-PI); Social Science Research Council IDRF; Social Science Research Council NMERTA; Social Science Research Council special-topics dissertation workshop, States and Societies in the Middle East (see vitae for more); University of Washington; Ecole Normale Supérieure - Cachan, Cachan, France; Honorary Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck College of Law, London, England; University of Florida.

Skills

·        High-level American English writing, reading, speaking, including professional writing and some literary skills

·        Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

·        Online platforms and teaching platforms including Canvas, Zoom, Google Meet, etc.

·        Organizing events, travel, conference panels, conferences, visiting speakers, and meetings

·        Teaching in-person and online

·        Organizing and moderating online meetings and webinars

·        Professional presentations, lectures, and talks

·        Curricular issues and higher education

·        Public service

·        Basic accounting and budgeting, basic hotel accounts auditing/accounting (e.g., night auditing)

·        Constructing spreadsheets (for grading, budgeting, balance sheets, conceptual variables, etc.)

·        International travel (Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and some travel in Africa and the Caribbean)

·        Basic French (B+/A-). Basic spoken Hebrew (H + one Hebrew literature in Hebrew course, and tutoring in legal language). Minimal niceties or introductions in spoken modern Arabic (4.5 years philological school training, advanced intermediate, and one summer course in spoken). Elementary training (little active use but some comprehension) in additional languages, see curriculum vitae (Spanish, Italian, Haitian Creole). Family exposure to several East Asian languages as a small child but no active or measurable use (cultural affinity, Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, and Korean).

·        Qualitative research, interviews, political ethnography, grassroots, and archival research‍ ‍

·        Indexing, some payroll processing

‍·        Basic travel and budgeting software

Policy Knowledge

Political institutions; international-level grassroots issues and the national state; Middle East cultures, society, and politics (19th century to present); Asian cultural perspectives (contemporary popular film, ritual, and defining Asian heroes from Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Eastward); religion, law, and gender in the Middle East; curricular issues at the higher education level; public higher education.

International Experience

Lived more than three years (non-consecutive) in Israel (1990s and 1999-2000); lived one year in Nepal (2025-2026), and one year in Haiti (1976-1977); lived six months plus one month in France (six months, 1987, and one month as a research fellow, 2004); two months in Birzeit, West Bank (1995); one month travel in Kenya (1994); and travel in Turkey, Morocco, Qatar, Egypt, most of Western Europe, Poland, the Dominican Republic, St. Petersburg (U.S.S.R., 1981), as well as early childhood travel to parts of East Asia, Mongolia, Nepal, India, and Kazakhstan.  

Hobbies

International fusion cuisine and recipes, creative writing, poetry writing, music and song writing, piano or electric piano, ukulele, guitar (concert size), swimming, equestrian sports, walking, bicycling, and feng shui and other types of East Asian design.

References

References are available upon request.

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