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Nazan Maksudyan

Research | Education | Fellowships, Honors and Awards | Languages | Teaching Experience | Work Experience | Publications | Presentations

Research

My principal research interests lie in the field of late Ottoman social history of children and youth. My scholarly work is in close contact with gender, sexuality, and non-Muslims. My current research focuses on the social history of the First World War in the Ottoman lands. I dwell upon children and youth as legitimate partakers, actors and witnesses of Ottoman political action, state and society, and generally the experience of war. I also have a parallel research on women suicides in Istanbul during and after the war.

Education

Fellowships, Honors and Awards

Languages

Turkish (Native), English (Advanced), French (Advanced), German (Intermediate), Armenian (Intermediate), Ottoman Paleography

Teaching Experience

Work Experience

Publications

Books
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014.

(ed.), Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.

Türklüğü Ölçmek: Bilimkurgusal Antropoloji ve Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Irkçı Çehresi, 1925-1939 [Measuring Turkishness: Science-Fictive Anthropology and Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism, 1925-1939], İstanbul: Metis, 2005; 2nd ed. 2007.


Journal Articles
"Hem Ermeni Hem Yetimdik / Soykırım Tanıklıklarında Çocukluk ve Büyümek" [We were both Armenians and Orphans: Childhood and Growing up in Genocide Testimonies], Notos, no. 55, Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2016, pp. 52-58.

"A New Angle of Observation: History of Children and Youth for Ottoman Studies", Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 111-114.

"Agents or Pawns? Nationalism and Ottoman Children during the Great War", Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA), vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 147-172.

"Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey", Women's History Review, vol. 24, no. 6, 2015, pp. 861-880.

"Üç Kuşak Üç Katliam: 1894'ten 1915'e Ermeni Çocuklar ve Yetimler", Toplum ve Bilim, no. 132, April 2015, pp. 33-49.

"Cihan Harbi Yıllarında Almanya'da Osmanlı Yetimleri: Mavi Kep ve Pelerin", Toplumsal Tarih, no. 243, March 2014, pp. 68-73.

"Amerikan Kaynaklarında Merzifon Anadolu Koleji'nin Kısa Tarihçesi", Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 18, no. 36, 2013, pp. 131-154.

"Des convois de gamins. L'envoi de jeunes orphelins ottomans en Allemagne pendant la première guerre mondiale", Revue d'histoire de l'enfance 'irrégulière', vol. 15, no. 2, Octobre 2013, pp. 111-141.

"Evli evine, köylü köyüne, evi olmayan? : Osmanlı Kent Reformu ve Şehirlerde İstenmeyen Çocuklar", Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 17, no. 34, 2012, pp. 159-183.

"Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and 'Reform' in the Late Ottoman Urban Space", International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 2011, pp. 493-511.

"State 'Parenthood' and Industrial Orphanages (Islâhhanes): Transformation of Urbanity and Family Life", The History of the Family, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 172-181.

" 'Being Saved to Serve': Armenian Orphans of 1894-96 and Interested Relief in Missionary Orphanages", Turcica, vol. 42, 2010, pp. 47-88.

"Die bildliche Darstellung des missionarischen Erfolges", Armenisch-Deutsche Korrespondenz, no. 148, 2010, pp. 52-54.

"Walls of Silence: Translating the Armenian Genocide into Turkish and Self-Censorship", Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, vol. 37, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 635-649.

"Guardians of Abandoned Children: Provisions for the Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire", Journal of History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 2, no. 3, Fall 2009, pp. 361-392.

"Fight over 'Nobody's Children': Religion, Nationality, and Citizenship of Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire", New Perspectives on Turkey, vol. 41, Fall 2009, pp. 151-180.

"Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Kadın İntiharları: Islah, İnkâr, İskât [Women Suicides in the Early Republican Era: Reform, Denial, Silencing], Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], no. 188, August 2009, pp. 60-66.

"Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire", Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 21, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 488-512.

"'Öldürmeden utan, ölmeden usan!': Geç Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Savaş Karşıtı Hissiyatın Açık ve Örtük Dışavurumları" ['Be ashamed to kill, get tired of dying': Manifest and Latent Expressions of Anti-War Sentiments in the Late Ottoman Empire],Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], no. 180, December 2008, pp. 34-41.

"Cemal Bey'in Adana Valiliği ve Osmanlıcılık İdeali" [Cemal Bey's Adana Governorship and the Ideal of Ottomanism], Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], no. 176, August 2008, pp. 22-28.

"Türklüğün Hazineleri ve Mimar Sinan: Kafatasları, Kemikler, Mezarlıklar" [Treasures of Turkishness and Sinan the Architect: Skulls, Bones, Cemeteries], Arredamento, no. 202, May 2007, pp. 60-63.

"Bir Sözlükten Büyülenmek: Sir James W. Redhouse Üzerine"[A Fascinating Dictionary: On James W. Redhouse], Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], no. 158, February 2007, pp. 34-39.

"The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism", Cultural Dynamics, vol. 17, no. 3, 2005, pp. 291-322.

"Resmi Din – Sivil Din Çatışması: Dinin Meşru Kullanımı Üzerinde Devlet Tekeli" [Tension Between State vs. Civil Islam: State Monopoly over the Legitimate Use of Religion], Toplumsal Tarih [Social History], no. 135, March 2005, pp. 56-61.

Book Chapters
"Civilian and Military Power (Ottoman Empire)" , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-02-01. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11037.

"A Triangle of Regrets: Training of Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War", in Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After, Benjamin C. Fortna (ed.), Leiden: Brill, 2016, pp. 141-172.

"Missions, 1800-1918", in Dictionnaire de l'Empire Ottoman, François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein (eds.), Paris: Fayard, 2015, pp. 803-804.

"Children and Youth (Ottoman Empire)", in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10595.

"Un débat sur la conquête d'istanbul. Silvestre de sacy et la traduction d'une élégie arménienne" in Silvestre de Sacy: Le projet européen d'une science orientaliste, Michel Espagne, Nora Lafi, Pascale Rabault- Feuerhahn (eds.), Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2014, pp. 125-134.

"Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History" in Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, Nazan Maksudyan (ed.), New York: Berghahn Books, 2014, pp. 1-12.

"'This time women as well got involved in politics!': Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency", in Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, Nazan Maksudyan (ed.), New York: Berghahn Books, 2014, pp. 107-135.

"Refugee Ottoman Orphans in Germany during the First World War", The World During the First World War, Helmut Bley, Anorthe Kremers (eds.), Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2014, pp. 151-166.

"New 'Rules of Conduct' for State, American Missionaries, and Armenians: 1909 Adana Massacres and the Ottoman Orphanage (Dârü'l-Eytâm-ı Osmânî)", L'ivresse de la Liberté: La Révolution de 1908 dans l'Empire Ottoman, François Georgeon (ed.), Paris: CNRS, 2012, pp. 137-171.

"Genel Dünya ve Avrupa Tarihçilerinde1915-16 Olayları" [The Massacres of 1915-1916 in World and European History Books] , in İmparatorluğun Çöküş Döneminde Osmanlı Ermenileri: Bilimsel Sorumluluk ve Demokrasi Sorunları [Ottoman Armenians during the Demise of the Empire: Issues of Scientific Responsibility and Democracy], Fahri Aral (ed.), İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2011, pp. 57-84.

"Helden, Opfer, Ikonen: Massenmobilisierung und osmanische Kinder während des Ersten Weltkriegs", in Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan, Jürgen Angelow (ed.), Berlin: Be.bra Verlag, 2011, pp. 161-173.

"Children as a Transgressors in Urban Space: Delinquency, Public Order and Philanthropy in the Ottoman Reform Era", in Expertise and Juvenile Violence, 19th-21st century, Aurore François, Veerle Massin and David Niget (eds.), Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011, pp. 21-39.

"Servants", in An Encyclopedia of Infanticide, Brigitte Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves (eds.), Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010, pp. 232-235.

"On Dokuzuncu Yüzyılda Osmanlı Kadın Örgütleri ve Siyasi Eylemlilik" [Women's Osganizations and Political Agency in the Nineteenth Century], in İstanbul Kadın-Kadın İstanbul [Women and Istanbul] Fatma Türe (ed.), İstanbul: Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, 2010, pp. 44-53.

"Armenia", in Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society, Carlisle, Rodney P. (ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2009, pp. 38-39.

"Merzifon Anadolu Koleji'nin Kısa Tarihçesi ve Boğos Piranyan" [Short History of American College of Merzifon and Boğos Piranyan], in Aşçının Kitabı: Merzifon Amerikan Anadolu Koleji Aşçısı 1914, [The Book of the Cook: From the Cook of the American College of Merzifon, 1914], Boğos Piranyan, Istanbul: Aras Yayıncılık, June 2008, pp. 133-178.

Book Reviews
"Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey", by Lerna Ekmekcioğlu (Book review), New Perspectives on Turkey 55 (2016): 136-140.
doi: 10.1017/npt.2016.26

"The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History", by Talin Suciyan (Book Review), Global Affairs 2 (2016): 234-236.

"Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East," by Avner Giladi (Book Review), The American Historical Review 121 (2016): 682-683 doi:10.1093/ahr/121.2.682

"Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity", by Kent F. Schull, (book review), International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, January 2015, p. 202-204.

"Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East", by Barbara Reeves-Ellington (book review), Journal of Church and State, vol. 56, no. 4, December 2014, pp. 778-781.

"Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House", by Esra Akcan, (book review), Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, vol. 1, April 2013.

"Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948", by Tara Zahra, (book review), Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 45, No. 2, Autumn 2010, pp. 391-393.

"Sous le Signe des Réformes: État et Société, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Turquie Kémaliste (1789-1939)", by François Georgeon, (book review), New Perspectives on Turkey, vol. 42, Spring 2010, pp. 265-268.

"Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa", by Stephanie Cronin (ed.), (book review), International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, May 2010, pp. 336-338.

"Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900", by Dror Ze'evi, (book review), AGOS Kirk, no. 4, February 2009, pp. 6-7.

"Smyrne, la Ville Oubliée? : Mémoires d'un Grand Port Ottoman, 1830-1930", by Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (ed.), (book review), AGOS Kirk, no. 2, December 2008, pp. 8-9.

"Cumhuriyet'te Çocuktular" [They were Children in the Republic], by Mine Göğüş Tan, Özlem Şahin, Mustafa Sever, Aksu Bora (eds.), (book review), Journal of History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 472-474.

"Enfance et Jeunesse dans le Monde Musulman / Childhood and Youth in the Muslim World", by François Georgeon, Klaus Kreiser (eds.), (book review)", New Perspectives on Turkey, vol. 38, Spring 2008, pp. 275-79.

Presentations

Papers
"Going to a Park and Play: A New Public Existence as Children and Youth", Transmed! Pensée méditerranéenne et conscience européenne: « Taksim partout, Résistance partout ? – L'espace civique, transformation urbaine, et mobilisations collectives », 5-6 May 2014, IFEA, Istanbul, sponsored by OFAJ/DFJW.

"The First Generation of Turkish Gastarbeiter?: Refugee Ottoman Orphans in Germany during the First World War", Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914 – 1918, organized by The Orient-Institut Istanbul and History Foundation, 8 – 12 April 2014, Istanbul.

"Battles over Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire", University of California at Santa Barbara Middle East Seminars, 10 February 2014, Santa Barbara, CA.

"Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries and Armenians of 'Asiatic Turkey'", Armenian Studies Program Lecture Series, 20 November 2013, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MA.

"Turkey between Europen Integration and Mediterranean Neo-Ottomanism", Transmed! Pensée méditerranéenne et conscience européenne, organized by Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ/DFJW), 16-18 May 2013, Lisbon.

"Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War", Approaching War: Europe, 16-17 March 2013, Newcastle University.

"Social Change, Urban Transformation, and the 'Epidemic' of Women Suicides in Early Republican Turkey", Annual RC21 Conference 2011: The struggle to Belong. Dealing with diversity in 21st century urban settings, Amsterdam, July 7-9 2011.

"Rejuvenating and Financing the Urban Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Establishment of the Authority for the Direction of Orphans' Property (1851)", 12th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, 6-10 April 2011.

"An Interesting Discussion on the Conquest of Istanbul: Silvestre de Sacy and Translation of an Armenian Elegy", Colloque International, Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838): Le projet européen d'une science orientaliste, Institut du Monde Arabe / Ecole normale supérieure (Paris), 14-15-16 October 2010.

"Documentation of 1909 Adana Massacres: A Comparative Study of Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi and French Diplomatic Archives in Nantes", The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions, Clark University, Worcester, 9-10 April 2010.

"Street Children as a Transgression in the New Bourgeois Urban Space: Juvenile Delinquency, Public Order and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire", Urban History Group Annual Conference, Collingwood College and the Science Site, University of Durham, 25 - 26 March 2010.

"Before-and-After Photographs: American Missionaries, Re-fashioning of Bodies and Conversion in the Late Ottoman Period", 43rd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 21-24 November, 2009, Boston.

"Heroes, Victims, Icons: Mass Mobilization and Ottoman Children during the First World War, 1914-1918", Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan: Neue Fragestellungen und Perspektiven, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, 12-14 October, 2009, Vienna.

"Adana 1909 and the Ottoman Orphanage: Resettlement of Relations Between the Armenians, State, and the Missionaries", L'ivresse de la Liberté: La Révolution de 1908 dans l'Empire Ottoman, College de France , Paris, 5-7 June 2008.

"Orphans as Actors in the Economic History of the Ottoman Empire: Industrial Orphanages , 1864-1908", European Social Science History Conference 2008 (ESSHC), Lisbon, Portugal, 26 February – 1 March 2008.

"Ethnic Conflicts, Massacres, Wars, and Intricacies of Orphan Relief: Missionary Orphanages in the Ottoman Empire, 1894-96", The Social and Cultural History of Children and Youth (SHCY), Linköping University, Sweden, 27-30 June, 2007.

"A Contested Terrain: Abandoned Children in the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire ", Eight Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, 21–25 March 2007.

"Abandoned Children of the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire", 21st Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, 12-13 May 2006.

Workshops
Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective for Ottoman Urban History, 27-28 May 2010, Berlin, sponsored by Wissenschaftskolleg (EUME) and ZMO.

Transmed! Pensée méditerranéenne et conscience européenne: « Taksim partout, Résistance partout ? – L'espace civique, transformation urbaine, et mobilisations collectives », 5-6 May 2014, Istanbul, sponsored by OFAJ/DFJW.

Little Pitchers Have Big Ears:Social and Cultural History of Children and Youth During the First World War, 27-28 May 2014, Istanbul, sponsored by Istanbul Kemerburgaz University.