Uğur Ümit Üngör

Uğur Ümit Üngör ( born 1980 in Erzincan ) is a Dutch researchers on genocide and mass violence.

Üngör, who was born in Turkey and grew up in Enschede in the Netherlands, teaches history at the University of Utrecht and sociology at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and genocide studies. He has published extensively in the field range of mass violence and genocide, especially on the genocide of the Armenians and the genocide in Rwanda.

Üngors book The Making of Modern Turkey; Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-50 (Oxford University Press, 2011 ), the winner of the Erasmus Research Prize was ( Praemium Erasmianum ) 2010, and the Keetje Hodshon Prize, which was awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Science and humanity. On 27 September 2012, awarded Ümit Üngör the Young Scientist Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.