Sabrina P. Ramet

Sabrina Petra Ramet (born Pedro Ramet; June 26, 1949, London) is an American academic, educator, editor and journalist. She is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

She 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, as well as 12 scholarly books.

Education

Ramet was educated at Stanford University, the University of Arkansas, and UCLA. She earned her PhD from UCLA in 1981.

Membership

• Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (since 2002)
• Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2009)

Personal life

A transgender woman, Ramet married Christine Marie Hassenstab in Norway on June 12, 2003. Ramet served in the United States Air Force from 1971–75, and was honorably discharged. Ramet became a U.S. citizen in 1966.

Ramet bibliography (selected)

• Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963-1983 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1984)
• Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991, 2nd ed. (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1992)
• Cross and Commissar: The Politics of Religion in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1987)
• The Soviet-Syrian Relationship since 1955: A Troubled Alliance (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990)
• Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and Meaning of the Great Transformation (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991); 2nd ed. 1995
• Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture, and Religion in Yugoslavia (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992)
• Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War, 2nd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996)
• Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovo, 3rd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999)
• Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2002)
• Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (Lanham, Md.: 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, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998)
• Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918—2005 (Bloomington, Ind. & Washington D.C.: Indiana University Press & The Wilson Center Press, 2006)
• The Liberal Project & the Transformation of Democracy: The Case of East Central Europe (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2007)
• Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia at Peace and at War: Selected Writings, 1983—2007 (Berlin & Münster: Lit Verlag, 2008)

External links

• Ramet bibliography, booksamillion.com; accessed March 8, 2016.
• Ramet CV (must be opened), prio.org; accessed March 8, 2016.