Uğur Ümit Üngör (born in

Erzincan Erzincan (; ), historically Yerznka (), is the capital of Erzincan Province in eastern Turkey. Nearby cities include Erzurum, Sivas, Tunceli, Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, and Giresun. The city is majority Turkish Sunni w ...

, 1980) is a Dutch–Turkish

academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, sociologist, and

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

Genocide studies Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide. Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined ''genocide'' and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the ...

, specializing as a scholar and researcher of

Holocaust studies Holocaust studies, or sometimes Holocaust research, is a scholarly discipline that encompasses the historical research and study of the Holocaust. Institutions dedicated to Holocaust research investigate the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinar ...

and studies on mass violence. He served as Professor of History at the

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

and Professor of Sociology at the

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 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 ...

Biography

Studies and career

Üngör, who was born in

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

and raised in

Enschede Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands. The east of the urban area reaches ...

the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, earned a

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

from the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

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

and sociology at the

in Amsterdam. Üngör was Lecturer in International History at the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

2008–2009, then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies at the

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

in 2009–2010. Since February 2020, he has been Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He has published widely in the field of mass violence and genocide studies, in particular the late Ottoman genocides, the

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

, and the

Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ...

. 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 Prize The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation to individuals or institutions that have made exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe and the rest of the world. I ...

by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in 2010, and of the Keetje Hodshon Prize awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities in 2013. In 2012, Üngör was awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award in History by the

Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. In addition to various advisory a ...

. 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, ''De Syrische Goelag: Assads Gevangenissen, 1970–2020'', was published in 2022 and focused on the dynamics of paramilitary violence in the Syrian civil war, notably on the Tadamon massacre.

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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'',

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ungor, Ugur Umit 1980 births 20th-century Dutch educators 20th-century Dutch historians 20th-century Turkish historians 21st-century Dutch educators 21st-century Dutch historians 21st-century Turkish historians Academics of the University of Sheffield Academics of University College Dublin Dutch expatriates in Ireland Dutch expatriates in the United Kingdom Genocide education Genocide studies scholars Historians of genocides Historians of the Armenian genocide Historians of the Holocaust Members of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Living people People from Enschede People from Erzincan Scholars of Ottoman history Turkish emigrants to the Netherlands Turkish expatriates in Ireland Turkish expatriates in the United Kingdom University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University