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
Göçek, Fatma Müge (1987). East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-536433-0.[6]
Göçek, Fatma Müge, ed. (1988). Political Cartoons in the Middle East. Princeton, New Jersey: Markus Wiener Publications.[7]
Gocek, Fatma Muge; Shiva, Balaghi, eds. (1995). Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power. Columbia University Press. ISBN978-0-231-51391-3.[8]
Göçek, Fatma Müge (1996). Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-509925-6.[9]
Göçek, Fatma Müge, ed. (2002). Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East. SUNY Press. ISBN978-0-7914-5198-4.[10]
Göçek, Fatma Müge (2011). The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era. London: L. B. Tauris.[11]
^Reviews of Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, doi:10.1017/S0026318400033149, JSTOR23061577; Sherna Berger Gluck, Arab Studies Quarterly, JSTOR41858190
^Reviews of Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Carter Vaughn Findley, The American Historical Review, doi:10.1086/ahr/102.2.490, JSTOR2170920; Jane Hathaway, Middle East Journal, JSTOR4329077, ProQuest218492505; Christoph Herzog, Die Welt des Islams, JSTOR1571299; Kemal H. Karpat, The Historian, JSTOR24452194; I. Metin Kunt, Journal of Islamic Studies, JSTOR26198325; Roger Owen, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, JSTOR206463; Misagh Parsa, American Journal of Sociology, JSTOR2782645; Donald Quataert, Journal of Social History, JSTOR3789569
^Reviews of Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East: Hamit Bozarslan, Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, [1]; Thomas Eich, Die Welt des Islams, JSTOR1571320