Associate Professor
Undergraduate Coordinator, Center for Jewish Studies
Ph.D. University of Washington (2001)
Professor Sohn is undergraduate coordinator for the Center for Jewish Studies. She is author of Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel (State University of New York Press, First Edition, 2008; Second Edition 2017); and co-editor of, Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, editors, Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press). She has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; as well as Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science; and several additional international and domestic universities and programs in France, Israel, England, and the U.S. She conducts research in English, Hebrew, and French, and has some written use of Arabic. Translations from Hebrew in her publications are her own unless otherwise stated. She has served on the National Screening Committee for Fulbright U.S. Student Program, as well as several additional national and collegiate screening, dissertation, and faculty-level fellowship committees. She has served as a national conference program chair, chair or organizer for two dissertation workshops, and as an officer in national academic associations.