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Patricia Sohn

Office Hours

Fall 2020: Wednesdays, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m., via Zoom until further notice.  Office meetings will depend upon University policy.

Contact Information

Email: pjsohn
Office: 333 Anderson

Current Works in Progress

Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, editors, Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics.  Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press.

Areas of Interest within Comparative Politics

  • The intersection of Comparative Law and Courts, Comparative Religion and Politics, and Comparative Gender Politics
    • Judicial Communities as Normative Communities
    • Continuing Salience of Religion in International Political Context; Freedom of Religious Practice and Belief; Freedom from Religion; Women’s Civil and Human Rights
    • State Institutions (Judiciary) / Grassroots
    • Methods:  Micro-Level Analyses; Political Ethnography; In-Depth, Open-Ended  Interviews

Region of Specialty

  • The Modern Middle East (e.g., Middle East and North Africa, Morocco – Pakistan)
    • Israel/Palestine