Author profile: Patricia Sohn

Dr. Patricia Sohn, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She is co-editor (with Simone Raudino) of Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics, (University of Michigan Press 2022); and author of Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel (SUNY Press 2017 and 2008).

Symbolic Violence and Post-election USA: A Parable

Patricia Sohn • Mar 16 2017 • Articles

The extraordinary degree of diversity in the US population can be managed with narratives and terms of discourse that lead to discontent and upheaval, or to pluralism.

The War of the Words: Trump and the Left

Patricia Sohn • Mar 3 2017 • Articles

Institutions keeps the country intact and in balance over the long term. Arguments over the details of policy matter less, for we regularly change our minds on policy.

Mainstream Film and the Middle East

Patricia Sohn • Jan 21 2017 • Articles

A recent trend in film-making is bringing to Western audiences a more grounded Middle East.

Fourteen Points on Local Courts in the U.S.

Patricia Sohn • Dec 27 2016 • Articles

Local judges need to be more empowered, not less, so that they can engage their training in impartial decision making based on law and principle.

Inhabiting Orthodoxy: Discussing Islam and Feminism, Continued

Patricia Sohn • Dec 9 2016 • Articles

Examining how Muslim women in the Middle East inscribe themselves in their own religion can help clarify differences and similarities between ‘us’ and ‘them’.

Methods War: How Ideas Matter within Political Science

Patricia Sohn • Nov 24 2016 • Articles

Calls for qualitative scholars to share their fieldwork notes is not only illegal, but also threatens the integrity and quality of the qualitative research process.

Pacifism, Just War and Civil Liberties in a Multicultural Age

Patricia Sohn • Nov 11 2016 • Articles

I will not fight for my rights, my freedoms or for my place in the political process. All of these are granted either by birth as a human being, or by citizenship.

Explaining the Donald Trump Victory

Patricia Sohn • Nov 9 2016 • Articles

Mark Twain came to mind many times throughout the recent election. I could imagine him rocking in his chair, smoking his cigar, shaking his head, and chuckling.

Income Inequality & Subaltern America: Thoughts for U.S. Election Day

Patricia Sohn • Oct 27 2016 • Articles

The next President of the U.S. is going to have to face the consequences of high levels of income inequality among the grassroots of the American people.

Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism

Patricia Sohn • Oct 20 2016 • Articles

Religion, far from being what separates us, may actually be one of the things that we share in common.

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