Selected Recent Activities

 

  1. Spoke regarding, “Historical Context: The War in Gaza and Israel,” and was a faculty facilitator for the “Policy Over Pastries Program: Israel and Gaza.”  Bob Graham Center, University of Florida, September 7, 2023.
    Dr. Sohn, 2022
  2. Department of Political Science, Leadership Council Staff member, December 2023.
  3. Infrastructure Council, Faculty Senate, UF, Member, 2022-2025.
  4. Chair, Department Curriculum Committee, 2023-2024.
  5. Panelist on a faculty roundtable to The Office of Asian Pacific Islander Desi Student Engagement’s FIND Workshop, sponsored by the Center for Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement, University of Florida, Saturday, August 19. 2023, Turlington Hall.
  6. Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, May 12 to August 8, 2023.
  7. “Fault Lines: The Women’s Movement, Orthodoxy, and The Secular State in Israel” talk presented to the International Program in the Humanities and the Department of Religion, University of Pisa, July 14, 2023.
  8. Simultaneously published:  “Religion and Secularism in Turkey, and The Turkish Elections” By Patricia Sohn, Shadi Heidarifar, and Sydney Polanin in E-International Relations, May 26, 2023; and, “Religion and Secularism in Turkey and the Turkish Elections” By Patricia Sohn, Shadi Heidarifar, and Sydney Polanin in Culturico.com, May 26, 2023.
  9. “Inclusiveness, Pedagogy, Identity, Ideology, and the Epistemology of the Professor” By Patricia Sohn in E-International Relations, May 13, 2023.
  10. Alternate, Fulbright-Schuman Award, March 2023 (not awarded).
  11. Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science, 2013 – 2023, excluding Spring 2015.
  12. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, eds.Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics. University of Michigan Press, May 2022. (A top-7 press in political science; simultaneously published in hardcover, paperback, and made available as a free e-book with the support of libraries participating in the “Knowledge Unlatched” program.)
  13. Academic Policy Council, Faculty Senate, UF, Replacement Member, 2022-2023.
  14. Undergraduate Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies, 2021 – 2023.
  15. National Screening Committee, U.S. Fulbright Foundation, Autumn 2022.
  16. Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Summer, 2022.
  17. Faculty Senator, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2006–2007, 2015–2018, 2019–2022.
  18. 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, 2022.
    16. 2022.
  19. 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, 2022.
    17. 2022
  20. 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.
  21. Patricia Sohn, “The Color of Institutions: Unity, Morality, or Decay? A Personal Reflection” in E–International Relations: Articles, June 22, 2022.
  22. Patricia Sohn, “Theatres of Difference: The Film ‘Hair’, Otherness, Alterity, Subjectivity and Lessons for Identity Politics” inE–International Relations: Articles, September 28, 2021.
  23. Chair, Academic Policy Council, 2018–2019.
  24. Member, Senate Steering Committee, University of Florida, 2018–2019.
  25. Curator of the Blog, “Subaltern States” for E–International Relations(http://e–ir.info), an online political science magazine with over 5 million annual visitors/readers, 2016 to 2019; four dozen blog pieces by Patricia Sohn, plus more than half a dozen contributing pieces curated from the U.S. and abroad.  Now listed as Articles onE–International Relations.
  26. Recognized by the U.S. Department of StateBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs andthe 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.
  27. 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.1.1.08Reviewed by Patricia J.
    Woods, 2016.
  28. 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.
  29. “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.
  30. Patricia J. Woods, “Fault Lines” inThe Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law (Cambridge Companions to Religion Series), edited by Christine Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 2017.
  31. “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.
  32. “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.
  33. 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 2016.
  34. Patricia J. Woods, “The Women’s Movement: Mobilization and the State” inContemporary Israel: New Insights and Scholarship (Jewish Studies in the Twenty–First Century Series), edited by Frederick Greenspahn. New York University Press, 2016.
  35. “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.
  36. “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.
  37. Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar/Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2006-2007.
  38. Anderson/College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Scholar/Faculty Honoree for outstanding teaching, 2001-2002.