Fatma Müge Göçek

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Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan.[1] She wrote the book Denial of Violence in 2015 concerning the prosectution of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 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.[2]

Biography

Having obtained both her BSc and MSc at the Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, she went to Paris to learn French.[3] In 1981, she moved to the Princeton University from where she received an additional MSc in 1984 and a Doctorate in 1988.[3]

Since 1988 she lectured at the University of Michigan.[3] She was appointed a full Professor in 2012 and lectures in the Department of Sociology and the Programme in Women's Studies.[3]

She was a signatory to the I apologize campaign in 2008,[4] which demanded that Turkey takes responsibility for the massacres inflicted on the Armenian population in 1915.[5]

Personal life

Göçek was named Fatma after her great-grandmother.[3]

Works

References

  1. ^ "gocek | U-M LSA Sociology". lsa.umich.edu.
  2. ^ "Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards". Rackham Graduate School: University of Michigan. Archived from the original on October 9, 2018. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e "H-Nationalism Interview with Fatma Müge Göçek | H-Nationalism | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
  4. ^ "özür diliyorum". www.ozurdiliyoruz.info. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  5. ^ "A Turkish 'I apologize' campaign to Armenians". Los Angeles Times. 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  6. JSTOR 545978