Ronit Ricci

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.{{Cite web |title=Ronit Ricci |url=https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/ronit-ricci |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=Australian National University }} 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;{{Cite web |last=Ricci |first=Ronit |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://ronit-ricci.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/ronit.ricci/files/ricci_website_curriculum_vitae.pdf |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Hebrew University of Jerusalem}} 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.{{cite thesis |last=Ricci |first=Ronit |date=2006 |title=Translating Conversion in South and Southeast Asia: The Islamic Book of One Thousand Questions in Javanese, Tamil and Malay |degree=PhD |publisher=University of Michigan |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/305308875 |oclc= 1194712766}}

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. 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. 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. She was awarded the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies' Bruno Award in 2014.{{Cite web |title=Ronit Ricci |url=https://iias.huji.ac.il/people/ronit-ricci |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=iias.huji.ac.il}}

Ricci generally specializes in Indonesian studies and Islamic studies, as well as the history of exile.{{Cite web |title=Prof. Ronit Ricci |url=https://en.asia.huji.ac.il/people/ronit-ricci |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=en.asia.huji.ac.il}} 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,{{Cite web |title=AAR Book Awards - Past and Current Winners |url=https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/About-AAR-/Award-Programs-/Awards/Book-Awards-/Winners-Book-Awards.aspx |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=American Academy of Religion}}{{Cite web |title=Benda Prize |url=https://www.asianstudies.org/grants-awards/book-prizes/benda-prize/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Association for Asian Studies}} which connects Muslims in South Asia and Southeast Asia with Islamic literature like the Masa'il Abdallah ibn Salam.{{Cite web |title=Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11274031.html |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=University of Chicago Press |series=South Asia Across the Disciplines |publisher=University of Chicago Press}} She was awarded the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies' Bruno Award in 2014. She has also edited several history volumes: Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories, on the history of translation in South and Southeast Asia.{{Cite web |title=Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories |url=https://www.routledge.com/Translation-in-Asia-Theories-Practices-Histories/Ricci-vanderPutten/p/book/9781905763313 |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Routledge}} Exile in Colonial Asia (2016), on the use of exile as a punishment in colonial South and Southeast Asia;{{Cite web |title=Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration |url=https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/exile-in-colonial-asia-kings-convicts-commemoration/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=UH Press }} Contentious Belonging (2019), on minorities in Indonesia;{{Cite web |title=Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia |url=https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2388 |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=ISEAS Publishing }} and Storied Island (2023), on Javanese literature.{{Cite web |title=Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature |url=https://brill.com/display/title/63708 |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Brill |publisher=Brill }} In 2020, she authored Banishment and Belonging, a book on history of the island of Sri Lanka as an exile destination.{{Cite web |title=Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core_title/gb/532010 |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Cambridge University Press}} She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021.{{Cite web |title=Ronit Ricci |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/ronit-ricci/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation }} In 2022, she was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-22 |title=האספה הכללית של האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים בחרה עשרה חברות וחברים חדשים לאקדמיה |url=https://www.academy.ac.il/News/NewsItem.aspx?nodeId=658&id=2351 |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |language=he}}

• Islam Translated (2011){{Cite journal |last=Ali |first=Muhamad |date=2013 |title=Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43818414 |journal=Journal of World History |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=877–880 |issn=1045-6007 |jstor=4381414}}{{Cite journal |last=Bradley |first=Francis R. |date=2012 |title=Review |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5728/indonesia.93.0217 |journal=Indonesia |issue=93 |pages=217–220 |doi=10.5728/indonesia.93.0217 |issn=0019-7289 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Richard J. |date=2012 |title=Review |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/complitstudies.49.4.0636 |journal=Comparative Literature Studies |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=636–639 |doi=10.5325/complitstudies.49.4.0636 |issn=0010-4132 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Cummings |first=William |date=2012 |title=Review of Islam translated: Literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23339362 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=168 |issue=4 |pages=549–552 |issn=0006-2294 |jstor=23339362}}{{Cite journal |last=Davis |first=Donald R. |date=2013 |title=Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23357545 |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=224–226 |issn=0021-9118 |jstor=23457545}}{{Cite journal |last=Gould |first=Rebecca |date=2013 |title=Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion and the Arab Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23526411 |journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=230–231 |issn=0010-4175 |jstor=23526411}}{{Cite journal |last=Gupta |first=Radhika |date=2014 |title=Review of Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43150533 |journal=Asian Ethnology |volume=73 |issue=1/2 |pages=345–347 |issn=1882-6865 |jstor=43150533}}{{Cite journal |last=Kaptein |first=Nico J. G. |date=2014 |title=Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/677813 |journal=History of Religions |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=218–221 |doi=10.1086/677813 |issn=0018-2710 |via=University of Chicago Press|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Tschacher |first=Torsten |date=2013 |title=Review of Islam translated: Literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23321698 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=175–176 |issn=0022-4634 |jstor=23321698}}
• Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories (2011, co-editor with Jan van der Putten){{Cite journal |last=Lindsay |first=Jennifer |date=2013 |title=Review of Translation in Asia: Theories, practices, histories |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23321697 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=173–175 |issn=0022-4634 |jstor=23321697}}
• Exile in Colonial Asia (2016, as editor){{Cite journal |last=Arnold |first=David |date=2017 |title=Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26804055 |journal=Journal of Social History |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=435–437 |issn=0022-4529 |jstor=26804055}}{{Cite journal |last=Coates |first=Timothy J. |date=2017 |title=Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. Perspectives on the Global Past Series |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/44631519 |journal=Journal of World History |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=169–171 |issn=1045-6007 |jstor=44631519}}{{Cite journal |last=Manuhutu |first=Wim |date=2017 |title=Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration, Ricci Ronit |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26281584 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=173 |issue=1 |pages=151–152 |issn=0006-2294 |jstor=26281584}}{{Cite journal |last=Stoll |first=Viktor M. |date=2017 |title=Review of Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26187353 |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=326–328 |issn=1356-1863 |jstor=26187353}}{{Cite journal |last=Tagliacozzo |first=Eric |date=2018 |title=Review of Exile in colonial Asia: Kings, convicts, commemoration |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26859551 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=325–326 |issn=0022-4634 |jstor=26859551}}
• Contentious Belonging (2019, co-editor with Greg Fealy){{Cite journal |last=Hamayotsu |first=Kikue |date=2020 |title=Review of Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26916455 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=176 |issue=2/3 |pages=425–428 |issn=0006-2294 |jstor=26916455}}{{Cite journal |last=Rinaldo |first=Rachel |date=2020 |title=Review of Contentious belonging: The place of minorities in Indonesia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27076283 |journal=Asian Journal of Social Science |volume=48 |issue=1/2 |pages=167–170 |issn=1568-4849 |jstor=27076283}}
• Banishment and Belonging (2020){{Cite journal |last=Malhi |first=Amrita |date=2022-07-30 |title=Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon, by Ronit Ricci |url=https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article-abstract/137/588/1533/6652303?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=137 |issue=588 |pages=1533–1535 |doi=10.1093/ehr/ceac167 |issn=0013-8266 |via=Oxford University Press|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Suryadi |date=2023 |title=Review of Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48719569 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=179 |issue=1 |pages=146–149 |issn=0006-2294 |jstor=48719569}}
• Storied Island (2023, as editor){{Cite journal |last=Sastrawan |first=Wayan Jarrah |date=2024-04-02 |title=Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0967828X.2024.2359254 |journal=South East Asia Research |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=222–225 |doi=10.1080/0967828X.2024.2359254 |issn=0967-828X |via=Taylor & Francis Online|url-access=subscription }}

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