ABSTRACT
Sabrina Petra Ramet is probably the most prolific and widely recognized contemporary scholar in the fields of Slavic Studies and East European history. As of August 2024, she has written 16 scholarly books and edited or co-edited 41 volumes; in addition, she has written more than 100 academic articles and book chapters for volumes edited by other scholars. Some of her works have been re-issued in expanded and updated editions, with several of her books having appeared in translations into Serbo-Croat, Italian, German and other languages. Any attempt to properly review her corpus of writings is destined to be flawed with shortcomings and gaps. Her scholarship straddles an unprecedented and wide area of the social sciences and the humanities: sociology, political science, human rights, political philosophy, and most importantly, history. In terms of chronology, the bulk of her works deal with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is quite challenging to create a reliable and precise taxonomy of Professor Ramet’s body of work, but I think that we can cluster her publications into roughly four interconnected categories: research on Yugoslavia and its successor states, research on democratization and human rights in Central and Eastern Europe, research on religion and politics, and lastly, miscellaneous writings (especially academic writings on rock counterculture, gender equality and the media, as well as humorous novels and humorous verse). Needless to say, this categorization is not without exceptions and overlaps. This chapter is an attempt to take a measure of Ramet’s body of work, and attempt to explain the unique academic trajectory and scholarly career undertaken by her. In this essay, I will offer the readers a chronological and thematic account of Ramet’s accomplishments and writings. I have made a subjective selection of the literature produced by Professor Ramet during her 45-year-long prolific career. I encourage all interested readers of this chapter to download and peruse her detailed CV, which is available on the official web pages of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her lengthy résumé is a testimony to her unparalleled academic career and myriads of achievements.
