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Ronit Ricci (Hebrew: רונית ריצ'י[1]) is an Israeli historian. She is the Sternberg-Tamir Chair in Comparative Cultures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2] A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in Indonesian studies and Islamic studies and has authored the books Islam Translated (2011) and Banishment and Belonging (2020) and edited such books as Exile in Colonial Asia (2016) and Contentious Belonging (2019).

Ronit Ricci
רונית ריצ'י
OccupationHistorian
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisTranslating Conversion in South and Southeast Asia: The Islamic Book of One Thousand Questions in Javanese, Tamil and Malay (2006)
Doctoral advisorNancy K. Florida
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Biography

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Ronit Ricci was raised in Jerusalem and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), where she got her BA in Indian Languages and Literatures and Psychology and her MAs in Indian Languages and Literatures and in Clinical Child Psychology, as well as the Rector's Award for Academic Excellence.[3][4] After spending a year (1997-1998) with Cornell University's FALCON immersion program on a Rothschild Fellowship, she obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan in 2006;[4] her doctoral dissertation, titled Translating Conversion in South and Southeast Asia: The Islamic Book of One Thousand Questions in Javanese, Tamil and Malay, was supervised by Nancy K. Florida.[5]

After working at the Columbia University Center for Comparative Literature and Society (2007) and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2008-2009) as a postdoctoral fellow, she began working as a lecturer at the Australian National University School of Culture, History and Language from 2010 until 2011, before being promoted to senior lecturer in 2012 and associate professor in 2013.[4] That same year she returned to HUJI as an associate professor at the Departments of Asian Studies and Religion and was later promote to professor in 2020.[4] She became head of India and Indonesia Studies at HUJI's Department of Asian Studies in 2017 as well as head of their Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies in 2019, before becoming chair of the entire department itself in 2020.[4] She was awarded the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies' Bruno Award in 2014.[6]

Ricci generally specializes in Indonesian studies and Islamic studies, as well as the history of exile.[7] She won the 2012 American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions Award and the 2013 Association for Asian Studies Harry J. Benda Prize for her book Islam Translated,[8][9] which connects Muslims in South Asia and Southeast Asia with Islamic literature like the Masa'il Abdallah ibn Salam.[10] She was awarded the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies' Bruno Award in 2014.[11] She has also edited several history volumes: Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories, on the history of translation in South and Southeast Asia.[12] Exile in Colonial Asia (2016), on the use of exile as a punishment in colonial South and Southeast Asia;[13] Contentious Belonging (2019), on minorities in Indonesia;[14] and Storied Island (2023), on Javanese literature.[15] In 2020, she authored Banishment and Belonging, a book on history of the island of Sri Lanka as an exile destination.[16] She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.[17] In 2022, she was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "האספה הכללית של האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים בחרה עשרה חברות וחברים חדשים לאקדמיה". Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (in Hebrew). 22 June 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Contact". ronit-ricci.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  3. ^ "Ronit Ricci". Australian National University. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e Ricci, Ronit. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  5. ^ Ricci, Ronit (2006). Translating Conversion in South and Southeast Asia: The Islamic Book of One Thousand Questions in Javanese, Tamil and Malay (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. OCLC 1194712766.
  6. ^ "Ronit Ricci". iias.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Prof. Ronit Ricci". en.asia.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  8. ^ "AAR Book Awards - Past and Current Winners". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  9. ^ "Benda Prize". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  10. ^ "Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". University of Chicago Press. South Asia Across the Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  11. ^ "Ronit Ricci". iias.huji.ac.il. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  12. ^ "Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories". Routledge. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  13. ^ "Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration". UH Press. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  14. ^ "Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia". ISEAS Publishing. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  15. ^ "Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature". Brill. Brill. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  16. ^ "Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  17. ^ "Ronit Ricci". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  18. ^ Ali, Muhamad (2013). "Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". Journal of World History. 24 (4): 877–880. ISSN 1045-6007 – via JSTOR.
  19. ^ Bradley, Francis R. (2012). "Review". Indonesia (93): 217–220. doi:10.5728/indonesia.93.0217. ISSN 0019-7289 – via JSTOR.
  20. ^ Cohen, Richard J. (2012). "Review". Comparative Literature Studies. 49 (4): 636–639. doi:10.5325/complitstudies.49.4.0636. ISSN 0010-4132 – via JSTOR.
  21. ^ Cummings, William (2012). "Review of Islam translated: Literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 168 (4): 549–552. ISSN 0006-2294 – via JSTOR.
  22. ^ Davis, Donald R. (2013). "Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". The Journal of Asian Studies. 72 (1): 224–226. ISSN 0021-9118 – via JSTOR.
  23. ^ Gould, Rebecca (2013). "Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion and the Arab Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 55 (1): 230–231. ISSN 0010-4175 – via JSTOR.
  24. ^ Gupta, Radhika (2014). "Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". Asian Ethnology. 73 (1/2): 345–347. ISSN 1882-6865 – via JSTOR.
  25. ^ Kaptein, Nico J. G. (2014). "Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". History of Religions. 54 (2): 218–221. doi:10.1086/677813. ISSN 0018-2710 – via University of Chicago Press.
  26. ^ Tschacher, Torsten (2013). "Review of Islam translated: Literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 44 (1): 175–176. ISSN 0022-4634 – via JSTOR.
  27. ^ Lindsay, Jennifer (2013). "Review of Translation in Asia: Theories, practices, histories". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 44 (1): 173–175. ISSN 0022-4634 – via JSTOR.
  28. ^ Arnold, David (2017). "Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration". Journal of Social History. 51 (2): 435–437. ISSN 0022-4529 – via JSTOR.
  29. ^ Coates, Timothy J. (2017). "Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. Perspectives on the Global Past Series". Journal of World History. 28 (1): 169–171. ISSN 1045-6007 – via JSTOR.
  30. ^ Manuhutu, Wim (2017). "Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration, Ricci Ronit". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 173 (1): 151–152. ISSN 0006-2294 – via JSTOR.
  31. ^ Stoll, Viktor M. (2017). "Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 27 (2): 326–328. ISSN 1356-1863 – via JSTOR.
  32. ^ Tagliacozzo, Eric (2018). "Review of Exile in colonial Asia: Kings, convicts, commemoration". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 49 (2): 325–326. ISSN 0022-4634 – via JSTOR.
  33. ^ Hamayotsu, Kikue (2020). "Review of Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 176 (2/3): 425–428. ISSN 0006-2294 – via JSTOR.
  34. ^ Rinaldo, Rachel (2020). "Review of Contentious belonging: The place of minorities in Indonesia". Asian Journal of Social Science. 48 (1/2): 167–170. ISSN 1568-4849 – via JSTOR.
  35. ^ Malhi, Amrita (30 July 2022). "Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon, by Ronit Ricci". The English Historical Review. 137 (588): 1533–1535. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceac167. ISSN 0013-8266 – via Oxford University Press.
  36. ^ Suryadi (2023). "Review of Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 179 (1): 146–149. ISSN 0006-2294 – via JSTOR.
  37. ^ Sastrawan, Wayan Jarrah (2 April 2024). "Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature". South East Asia Research. 32 (2): 222–225. doi:10.1080/0967828X.2024.2359254. ISSN 0967-828X – via Taylor & Francis Online.
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