Uğur Ümit Üngör

Who is Uğur Ümit Üngör?

Uğur Ümit Üngör is a Dutch scholar of genocide and mass violence.

Ungor, who was born in Turkey and raised in Enschede in the Netherlands, teaches history at Utrecht University and sociology at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies. He has published widely in the field of mass violence and genocide, in particular the Armenian genocide and the Rwandan genocide.

Ungor's book, The Making of Modern Turkey; Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-50 was the winner of the Erasmus Research Prize 2010, and of the Keetje Hodshon Prize awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. On 27 September 2012 Üngör will be awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.