Sabrina P. Ramet

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.

In 2008, the historian Dejan Djokić referred to her as "undoubtedly the most prolific scholar of the former Yugoslavia writing in English". Ramet moved to the United States at age 10.

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.

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

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

Selected bibliography

Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1963-1983 (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984) 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) Balkan Babel: Politics, Culture, and Religion in Yugoslavia (Boulder, Coloroado: Westview Press, 1992) Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991, 2nd edition (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1992)

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: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War, 2nd edition (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996) 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) 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

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) Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The Failure of Democracy-building, the Fate of Minorities (Routledge, 2020)

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).