Sabrina P. Ramet Explained

Sabrina Petra Ramet
Birth Date:26 June 1949
Birth Place:London, England
Citizenship:United States (since 1966)
Alma Mater:Stanford University
University of Arkansas
UCLA PhD
Occupation:professor of Eastern European studies, writer
Known For:scholarship on the former Yugoslavia writing in English
Notable Works:Whose 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]

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

Personal life

Assigned male at birth, Sabrina Ramet was born in London, and is of Austrian and Spanish descent. She moved to the United States at age 10.[2] 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] While stationed in Germany, she worked for the base newspaper, as a staff writer and later as editor. In 1973, she was a sergeant.[3]

In December 1990, she started living as a woman and began using the name Sabrina. 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.

Education

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]

Career and major publications

In addition to the current position as professor of political science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology since 2001, 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. She 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. She writes in her native English, but her books appear in Bulgarian, Danish, German, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbocroatian, Slovenian, and Spanish. 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.[4] Her 2006 book, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005, was reviewed in The American Historical Review,[5] Foreign Affairs,[6] East European Politics and Societies[7] and The Journal of Modern History.[8] In 2008, historian Dejan Djokic called Ramet "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English".[5]

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.[9] [10]

Memberships

Selected bibliography

. Sabrina P. Ramet. Primordial Ethnicity or Modern Nationalism: The Case of Yugoslavia's Muslims, Reconsidered. Muslim Communities Reemerge: Historical Perspectives on Nationality, Politics, and Opposition in the Former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. 1994. Durham and London. Duke University Press. 111–138. 0822314908.

. Sabrina P. Ramet. Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. 2005. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 9780521616904.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carter . Daniela . Sabrina P. Ramet curriculum vitae . docplayer.net.
  2. Web site: Sabrina Petra Ramet, Professor . 19 May 2017 . Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  3. Ramet, Pedro. "Ramstein airman is prolific artist", The Stars and Stripes, European Edition, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany, volume 32, number 234, December 8, 1973, page 9. Note: this article was written by Sergeant Pedro Ramet.
  4. Kürti. László. A Review of: "Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe". . 1 July 2006. 18. 2. 359–360. 10.1080/09546550600663591. 147652725. 0954-6553.
  5. Djokić. Dejan. Sabrina P. Ramet: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. The American Historical Review. April 2008 . 113 . 2 . 609–610 . 10.1086/ahr.113.2.609.
  6. News: Levgold. Robert. Review: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005. January 5, 2017. Foreign Affairs. February 2007.
  7. Lukic. R.. 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. November 1, 2007. 21. 4. 726–733. 10.1177/0888325407307283. 143720694.
  8. Stokes. Gale. Sabrina P. Ramet, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. The Journal of Modern History. June 1, 2008. 80. 2. 470–471. 10.1086/591598. 0022-2801.
  9. Djilas . Aleksa . The academic West and the Balkan test . Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans . 3 December 2007 . 9 . 3 . 323–328 . 10.1080/14613190701728320 . 154936884 .
  10. Ramet . Sabrina P. . Lampe . John R. . Debates . Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans . 1 April 2008 . 10 . 1 . 115–120 . 10.1080/14613190801923276 . 216141613 .
  11. http://www.dknvs.no/akademimedlemmer/medlemmer/gruppe-iv-sosiologi-og-statsvitenskap/ Member listing of DKNVS Group IV, sociology and political science
  12. http://www.dnva.no/c40134/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40175 Member listing of DNVA Group 7: social studies

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