Uğur Ümit Üngör (born 1980) is a Turkish scholar of

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...

and mass violence.

Career

Üngör, who was born in Turkey and raised in

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

in the Netherlands, earned a doctorate from the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

in 2009,Aram Arkun
"Prolific Young Scholar on Armenian Genocide in Holland"
"The Armenian Mirror Spectator", 7 February 2012. and taught history at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

and sociology at the

NIOD The NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Dutch: ''NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies'') is an organisation in the Netherlands which maintains archives and carries out historical studies into the Second Wo ...

Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He has published widely in the field of mass violence and genocide, in particular the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

and the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...

. Üngör was Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield 2008-9, then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies at University College Dublin in 2009–10. Since February 2020, he has been Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the

Institute in Amsterdam. Üngör's book based on his dissertation, '' The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-50'' (Oxford University Press, 2011) was the winner of the Erasmus Research Prize by

Praemium Erasmianum Foundation The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation is a Dutch cultural institution that works in the humanities, the social science and the arts. It was founded in 1958 by Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. The aim of the Foundation is to strengthen the pos ...

2010 and of the Keetje Hodshon Prize awarded by the Royal Netherlands Society of Sciences and Humanities. Üngör was awarded the 2012 Heineken Young Scientist Award in History by the

Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

. He and Armenian Alexander Goekjian, who also wrote the screenplay and directed, are featured in the documentary ''The Land of Our Grandparents'', which was shown on Dutch public television on 24 April 2008, and was awarded the prize for best documentary at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto that year. Üngör also co-wrote ''Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property'' in 2011. His most recent work is on the dynamic and violence of the Syrian civil war, notably on the

Tadamon massacre The Tadamon massacre took place in the vicinity of Othman Mosque, Tadamon, Syria, Tadamon neighbourhood of the Syrian capital of Damascus, on 16 April 2013 during the Syrian civil war. Soldiers affiliated with the Syrian Armed Forces, specifically ...

Works

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References

External links

Ugur Ümit Üngör official website

Üngör's profile on the NIOD Institute website

"Fatale mix voor massageweld"
Interview by Mariette Huisjes, ''Akademie Nieuws'',

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