Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the

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

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in the

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and

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, for which she received the

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award for best book from the

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. In 2017, she won a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the university.

Biography

Having obtained both her BSc and MSc at the Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, she went to

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to learn

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. In 1981, she moved to the Princeton University 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

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in 2008, which demanded that Turkey takes responsibility for the massacres inflicted on the Armenian population in 1915.

Personal life

Göçek was named Fatma after her great-grandmother.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gocek, Fatma Muge 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