Ugur ungor biography

Dutch–Turkish historian, sociologist, and professor (born )

Uğur Ümit Üngör (born in Erzincan, ) is a Dutch–Turkish academic, historian, sociologist, and professor of Genocide studies, specializing as a scholar and researcher of Holocaust studies and studies on 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 Erzincan, Turkey and raised in Enschede, the Netherlands,^[1][2] earned a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in ,^[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 –, then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies at the University College Dublin in –^[5