Uğur Ümit Üngör

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Uğur Ümit Üngör (born in

mass violence. He served as Professor of History at the Utrecht University and Professor of Sociology at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
.

Biography

Studies and career

Üngör, who was born in

the Netherlands,[1][2] earned a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 2009,[3] and taught history at the Utrecht University and sociology at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.[4] Üngör was Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield 2008–2009, then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies at the University College Dublin in 2009–2010.[5]
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

Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.[8]

He and Armenian Alexander Goekjian, who also wrote the screenplay and directed, are featured in the documentary The Land of Our Grandparents,[9] 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.[3] 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.

Works

Articles

  • Üngör, Uğur Ümit (June 2008). "Seeing like a nation-state: Young Turk social engineering in Eastern Turkey, 1913–50".
    S2CID 71551858
    .
  • Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2012). "Disastrous Decade: Armenians and Kurds in the Young Turk Era, 1915–25". In Jongerden, Joost; Verheij, Jelle (eds.). Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870–1915. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol. 51.
    S2CID 130614294
    .

Essays

References

  1. ^ Gregorian, Alin K. (14 April 2010). "Clark Attempts to Define State of Genocide Research". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ "De passie van…Ugur Ümit Üngör" (in Dutch). 4 December 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b Aram Arkun, "Prolific Young Scholar on Armenian Genocide in Holland", "The Armenian Mirror Spectator", 7 February 2012.
  4. ^ http://www.ungor.nl/?page_id=22/ [dead link]
  5. S2CID 145400499
    .
  6. ^ "Dissertatieprijswinnaars". Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Keetje Hodshon Prijs 2011 toegekend aan Dr. Üngör | Nieuws - De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen". 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  8. Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
    , retrieved 16 October 2013 (in Dutch)
  9. ^ "Land of Our Grandparents (2008) - IMDb". IMDb. 24 April 2008.

External links

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