Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. She wrote the book Denial of Violence in 2015 concerning the prosectution of

Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, '' hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diasp ...

in the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

and

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, for which she received the Mary Douglas award for best book from the American Sociological Association. In 2017, she won a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University.

Biography

Having obtained both her

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...

and MSc at the Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, she went to

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to learn French. In 1981, she moved to the Princeton University from from where she received an additional MSc in 1984 and a Doctorate in 1988. Since 1988 she lectured at the

. She was appointed a full Professor in 2012 and lectures in the Department of Sociology and the Programme in Women’s Studies. She was a signatory to the I apologize campaign in 2008, which demanded that Turkey takes responsibility for the massacres inflicted on the Armenian population in 1915.

Personal life

Gökçek was named Fatma after her great grand mother.

Works

* * * * * * * *Reviews of ''Denial of Violence'': Ateş Altinordu, ''Contemporary Sociology'', , ; Eldad Ben-Aharon, ''Journal of Social History'', ; Vicken Cheterian, ''Nationalities Papers'', , ; Stefan Ihrig, ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies'', ; Joanne Laycock, ''Reviews in History'', ; Ľubica Polláková, ''International Affairs'', , ; Steven A. Usitalo, ''Canadian Slavonic Papers'', ; Andrekos Varnava, ''Genocide Studies and Prevention'', ; Keith David Watenpaugh, ''The American Historical Review'', ,

References

University of Michigan faculty Historians of the Armenian genocide 20th-century Turkish historians Turkish sociologists Turkish women sociologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Turkish historians {{Turkey-sociologist-stub