Sabrina Petra Ramet (born June 26, 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

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

Personal life

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, Sabrina Ramet was born in London, and is of Austrian and Spanish descent. She moved to the United States at age 10. 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

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in Germany. While stationed in Germany, she worked for the base newspaper, as a staff writer and later as editor. In 1973, she was a sergeant. 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

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and politics, in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Poland.

Education

Ramet was educated at

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(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.

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

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, 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''. 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''. Her 2006 book, ''The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005'', was reviewed in '' The American Historical Review'', ''

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'', '' East European Politics and Societies'' and '' The Journal of Modern History''. In 2008, historian Dejan Djokic called Ramet "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English".

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.

Memberships

* Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (since 2002) * Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009)Member listing of DNVA Group 7: social studies
, Dnva.no, retrieved 2017-01-05.

Selected bibliography

*''Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963-1983'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984) *''Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991'', 2nd edition (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992) *''Cross and Commissar: The Politics of Religion in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union'' (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1987) *''The Soviet-Syrian Relationship since 1955: A Troubled Alliance'' (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990) *''Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and Meaning of the Great Transformation (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1991); 2nd ed. 1995 *''Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture, and Religion in Yugoslavia'' (Boulder, Coloroado: Westview Press, 1992) * *''Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War'', 2nd edition (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996) *''Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovo'', 3rd edition (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999) *''Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic,'' 4th edition (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2002): also published in Croatian and Macedonian translations *''Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe'' (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997) — named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1997 by ''Choice'' magazine *''Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia'' (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998) * *''The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918—2005'' (Bloomington, Indiana & Washington D.C.: Indiana University Press & The Wilson Center Press, 2006): also published in Croatian and German translations *''Rellgija i politika u vremenu promene: Katolicka i pravoslavne crkve u centralnoj i jugoistocnoj Evropi'' (Belgrade: Centar za zenske studije i istrazivanja roda, 2006) *''The Liberal Project & the Transformation of Democracy: The Case of East Central Europe'' (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 2007) *''Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983—2007'' (Berlin & Münster: Lit Verlag, 2008) *''The Catholic Church in Polish History: From 966 to the present'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

References

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