Sabrina P. Ramet

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Sabrina Petra Ramet
Born (1949-06-26) 26 June 1949 (age 76)
London, England
CitizenshipUnited States (since 1966)
Alma mater Stanford University
University of Arkansas
UCLA PhD
Occupation(s)professor of Eastern European studies, writer
Known forscholarship on the former Yugoslavia writing in English
Notable workWhose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997)

Sabrina Petra Ramet (born 26 June 1949) is an American academic, educator, editor and journalist. She specializes in Eastern European history and politics and is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. [1]

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In 2008, the historian Dejan Djokić referred to her as "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English". [2]

Early life and education

Sabrina Ramet was born in London, and is of Austrian and Spanish descent. Her father, Sebastian, was born in Spain and her mother, Idra, hailed from the village of Götzis in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. [3] Ramet moved to the United States at age 10. [4]

Assigned male at birth, Ramet began to question her gender identity around the age of 10. By late 1990, she began her public gender transition into a woman and used the name Sabrina. [5]

She became a US citizen in 1966 at age 17. She served in the United States Air Force from 1971 to 1975 and was stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. [1]

Ramet was educated at Stanford University (A.B., 1971), the University of Arkansas (M.A., 1974), and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She earned her PhD from UCLA in 1981. [1] [4]

Career and major publications

Ramet has written more than 90 journal articles and contributed chapters to various scholarly collections. She is the author of 12 scholarly books and has been editor of 35 scholarly books. [4] She writes in her native English, but her books appear in Bulgarian, Danish, German, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbocroatian, Slovenian, and Spanish. [4]

In 1983, she became an assistant professor at the University of Washington. In 1984, her doctoral dissertation was published by Indiana University Press entitled Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963–1983. [3]

Her 1985 article Factionalism in Church-State Interaction: The Croatian Catholic Church in the 1980s, published in the Slavic Review, had a significant impact in the academic treatment of Church-State relations within communist countries. [3] Her second monograph Cross and the Commissar, which explores religion under the Soviet bloc, was published in 1987. [3]

Her most-cited work, Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture and Religion in Yugoslavia was released in 1992, in the midst of the Yugoslav wars. [3]

In 1994, she became full professor at the University of Washington. [3]

Ramet lived in England, Austria, Germany, Croatia, and Serbia before joining the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2001, when she settled in Norway. She continues to travel for her research in Eastern European history and politics, in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Poland. [4]

Ramet is also a senior associate at the Centre for the Study of Civil War as well as a research associate at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia. Her translation of Viktor Meier's book, Wie Jugoslawien verspielt wurde, was published by Routledge in July 1999 in English as Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. [1]

One of Ramet's early books, Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997), was reviewed in Terrorism and Political Violence . [6] Her 2006 book, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005, was reviewed in The American Historical Review , [2] Foreign Affairs , [7] East European Politics and Societies [8] and The Journal of Modern History . [9]

In 2008, historian Dejan Djokic called Ramet "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English". [2]

Ramet retired from teaching in 2019 and became professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [3]

Debate

In 2007, Serbian sociologist, historian and writer, Aleksa Đilas, sparked a debate between himself and two authors, Ramet and John R. Lampe, by publishing a critique of "the academic West" in general, and Ramet's Thinking About Yugoslavia and Lampe's Balkans into Southeastern Europe books in particular. In response professors Lampe and Ramet published a rebuttal of Đilas' critique in the same Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans publication, in which both authors addressed his claims, while Ramet disputed his characterizations. [10] [11]

Memberships

Selected bibliography

Novels

In addition to her academic work, Ramet has also written several novels, including the satirical Pets of the Great Dictators & Other Writings and absurdist Café Bombshell: The International Brain Surgery Conspiracy (2008), Cheese Pirates: Humorous Rhymes for Adult Children (2011), Make Marzipan, not War: Crazy Rhymes for Crazy Times (2013), History of Russia & the Soviet Union in Humorous Verse (2014), and Curse of the Aztec Dummy: A Nebraskan Chronicle (2017). [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Carter, Daniela. "Sabrina P. Ramet curriculum vitae". docplayer.net.
  2. 1 2 3 Djokić, Dejan (April 2008). "Sabrina P. Ramet: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005". The American Historical Review. 113 (2): 609–610. doi:10.1086/ahr.113.2.609.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Zdravkovski, Aleksander (2024). "How Does She Know All of This?: Sabrina Ramet's Contribution to the Field of Slavic Studies and Beyond". In Cibulka, Frank; Irwin, Zachary T. (eds.). Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks: On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980. Central European University Press. pp. 385–400. ISBN   9789633864579.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sabrina Petra Ramet, Professor". Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  5. ↑ Darby, Creg (8 December 1990). "UW Teacher Takes Steps To Change Gender". The Seattle Times.
  6. ↑ Kürti, László (1 July 2006). "A Review of: "Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe"". Terrorism and Political Violence . 18 (2): 359–360. doi:10.1080/09546550600663591. ISSN   0954-6553. S2CID   147652725.
  7. ↑ Levgold, Robert (February 2007). "Review: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005". Foreign Affairs . Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  8. ↑ Lukic, R. (1 November 2007). "Review of Ramet's The Three Yugoslavias: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005 by Sabrina P. Ramet. Washington, DC, and Bloomington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Indiana University Press, 2006". East European Politics and Societies . 21 (4): 726–733. doi:10.1177/0888325407307283. S2CID   143720694.
  9. ↑ Stokes, Gale (1 June 2008). "Sabrina P. Ramet, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005". The Journal of Modern History . 80 (2): 470–471. doi:10.1086/591598. ISSN   0022-2801.
  10. ↑ Djilas, Aleksa (3 December 2007). "The academic West and the Balkan test" (PDF). Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. 9 (3): 323–328. doi:10.1080/14613190701728320. S2CID   154936884.
  11. ↑ Ramet, Sabrina P.; Lampe, John R. (1 April 2008). "Debates" (PDF). Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. 10 (1): 115–120. doi:10.1080/14613190801923276. S2CID   216141613.
  12. ↑ Member listing of DKNVS Group IV, sociology and political science, Dknvs.no, retrieved 2017-01-05.
  13. ↑ Member listing of DNVA Group 7: social studies Archived 6 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine , Dnva.no, retrieved 2017-01-05.
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