Prof. Dr. Nazan Maksudyan | Forscherin

Dynamiken und Erfahrungen der Globalisierung
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, D-10117 Berlin
E-Mail: maksudyan  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de Tel: +49(0) 30 / 20 93 70700
Website: https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/NazanMaksudyan

Mutterinstitut : Centre Marc Bloch | Position : Forscherin | Fachbereich : Geschichte |

Biographie

Senior Researcher und Leiter des Forschungsteams des Centre Marc Bloch im Rahmen des vom UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) finanzierten Forschungsprojekts "Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1914" (OTTOMAN AURALITIES; (vorherige) ERC Starting Grant 2021; Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter McMurray, Universität von Cambridge). Sie ist Vorstandsmitglied der Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS), Journal of Women's History, und Journal of European Studies.

Von 2019 bis 2022 war Maksudyan Einstein-Gastprofessorin am Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut an der Freien Universität Berlin. Sie war 2009 und 2010 "Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe" (EUME) Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin und 2010 - 2011 sowie 2016 und 2018 Postdoc-Stipendiatin der Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung am Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. Von 2013 bis 2016 arbeitete sie als Professorin für Geschichte in Istanbul und habilitierte sich 2015.

Ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des späten Osmanischen Reiches (18.- 20. Jahrhundert) und der modernen Türkei, mit besonderem Interesse an Kindern und Jugendlichen, Geschlecht, Sexualität und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Zu ihren Publikationen, Ottoman Children & Youth During World War I (Syracuse UP, 2019), Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse UP, 2014), Women and the City, Women in the City (ed., Berghahn, 2014), Urban Neighborhood Formations (ed. with Hilal Alkan, Routledge, 2020).

Soundscapes der spätosmanischen Städte

Mein Projekt ist eine vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte der Soundscapes der spätosmanischen Städte. Das Ziel ist es, die sensorischen und subjektiven Aspekte von Sounds zu konfigurieren. Ich beabsichtige, ein Bild davon zu geben, wie osmanische Soundscapes durch den allgegenwärtigen Klang des muslimischen Gebetsrufs geprägt wurden, aber auch bis zu einem gewissen Grad durch die Geräusche anderer Religionen, durch Straßenhändler, die das Straßenleben mit ihren kommerziellen Aktivitäten dominierten, durch Hunde, durch Feuer und Feuerwehrleute und natürlich durch die neuen Infrastruktur- und Kommunikationstechnologien von Eisenbahn, Straßenbahn, Telegraf und Dampfschiff um die Jahrhundertwende. Die Forschung erstreckt sich auch auf die Kritik und das Bewusstsein bestimmter Teile der Gesellschaft bezüglich Lärm und Anti-Lärm-Bestimmungen. Das Projekt interessiert sich besonders für die Implikationen von Geschlecht, Gesellschaftsschicht, Ethnizität, Religion und Mensch-Tier-Begegnungen bei der Gestaltung des sonischen Lebens in den Städten.

(UKRI) OTTOMAN AURALITIES and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922


The Project

A core idea of OTTOMAN AURALITIES is the notion of “auralities,” a study of sound, sonic culture and technologies that emerges both in dialogue with and critique of the field of sound studies (Gautier 2014). We also build upon a body of literature on global sonic cultures, either focusing on the aftermath of recording technologies (Denning 2015, Kheshti 2015) or in contemporary settings that employ ethnography as their main methodology (Feld 2012 [1982], Hirschkind 2006, Novak 2013). Two groundbreaking recent volumes of essays, Audible Empire (Radano and Olaniyan 2016) and Remapping Sound Studies (Steingo and Sykes 2019) exemplify these two important trajectories. Yet the historical study of sound and auditory cultures outside Europe and North America remains relatively underdeveloped. Thus in suggesting a “provincializing” of sound studies, to draw on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s classic term for postcolonial historiography (2000), we suggest that an emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean, and the techniques and technologies of sounding and listening that were cultivated within those geographies, allows a crucial attempt to rethink notions of sonic modernity that valorize the West.

The study of sound within histories of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean is beginning to emerge at the intersection of musicology of the Ottoman Empire and cultural history. Histories of recorded music in the Eastern Mediterranean (Ünlü 2016; Abbani 2018, 2022) and musicological works about the early Turkish Republic (O’Connell 2013) add important dimensions to this history as well. The shift from the history of Ottoman art/architecture toward a broader paradigm of visual studies in recent years (e.g., Ersoy 2015, Orkçuoğlu 2020) has inaugurated a wider conceptualization of visuality not rooted in monuments or obvious works of art, per se, but rather in a greater awareness of everyday sensory experience. Nina Ergin has also written key articles on the soundscapes of mosques in Ottoman-era Istanbul (2008) and on women’s sonic experiences of religious architecture (2014). Ziad Fahmy’s new book (2020) on Egyptian auditory culture around the turn of the twentieth century offers an important model for what this kind of sonic history might look like.

KEY THEMES

Given the ubiquity of sound in most all domains of life, we offer thematic areas that will help structure research and allow the project to maintain focus yet think inclusively about whose sonic lives and experiences constituted the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean.

1. Circulation: While sound and “soundscape”-oriented projects have often conceived of sound as being connected to a particular location, this project emphasizes from the outset the circulation and mobilities of sound, as well as those people who make or perceive sonic processes.

2. Space and Ecology: Related to the question of circulation is that of space, whether architectural (Ergin, 2008), urban (Fahmy 2020), or rural and/or located in a broader environment (Mikhail 2013). The resonance of various religious buildings, both inside and outside, created defining sensory experiences for many Ottoman subjects and also made cultural difference audible (or intentionally not). Noise, a key dimension of urban sound, will figure prominently in the project, such as in accounts of the packs of wild dogs roaming Istanbul.

3. Voice: Voice studies has emerged as a robust discourse at the intersection of sound studies, psychoanalysis, and the natural sciences (Eidsheim and Meizel 2019). Besides poetry, religious vocal practices play a key role in the project.

4. Infrastructures: Media theorists have increasingly emphasized the centrality of infrastructure (Peters 2015), including both material/inanimate infrastructures (roads, canals, railways) as well as humans involved in labor, maintenance, and societal upkeep. Institutions such as telegraphy stations, railroads, the Ottoman Translation Office (Tercüme Odası), schools (including those for the deaf), early telephone stations, and the Sultan’s court itself all offer important areas for study.

5. Bodies, Gender, Sexuality: Focusing on sound and auditory culture allow new considerations of bodily practice, gender, and the performance of sexuality. Here related subjects of music, performance, and medicine will play a greater role.

6. Techne: This thematic area suggests both material technologies of this period (e.g., telegraphy, photography, gramophone, film, radio) and the “native” techniques people developed to make use of these technologies.

The OTTOMAN AURALITIES-research-team consists of Dr. Peter McMurray, Principal Investigator (University of Cambridge); Prof. Nazan Maksudyan, Senior Researcher (CMB); three Post-Doc researchers: Dr. Vanessa Paloma-Elbaz (University of Cambridge), Dr. Jacob Olley (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Onur Engin (University of Cambridge); two PhD researchers: Hande Betül Ünal (University of Cambridge), Benedict Turner-Berry (University of Cambridge); and affiliated researchers: Dr. Carole Woodall (University of Colorado); Salih Demirtaş (Orient-Institut Istanbul); Dr. Martin Greve (Orient-Institut Istanbul); Dr. Esther Voswinckel (Orient-Institut Istanbul).
In order to secure high standards in research, our Advisory Board consists of Dr. Ziad Fahmy (Cornell University); Dr. Deniz Türker (Rutgers University); Dr. Martin Stokes (King’s College London); Dr. Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi University); and Dr. Nina Ergin (Koç University).
Zeynep Kacmaz Milne (Cambirdge) is the Project Administrator. This transnational research project is made possible with funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)  (EP/X032833/1).

Virtual stories

The project aims to create new digital platforms of virtual arts for children & youth to be able to speak up and tell their own stories through novel and unorthodox mediums. The youth we are in contact with think that the virtual reality is the technology of the future, and are curious about new forms of storytelling that get them beyond the binaries of contemporary scientific thought and practice. The project also aims to create channels for Middle Eastern youth to engage with young people in Europe, and especially those in Berlin, through interregional connections built by the project partners.

https://www.virtualstoriesberlin.com/

Publikationen

Monographs

  1. Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during the World War One  (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019).
  2. Nazan Maksudyan,Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014).
  3. Nazan Maksudyan,Türklüğü Ölçmek: Bilimkurgusal Antropoloji ve Türk Milliyetçiliğinin Irkçı Çehresi, 1925-1939 [Measuring Turkishness: Science-Fictive Anthropology and Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism, 1925-1939] (Istanbul: Metis, 2005; 2nd ed. 2007; 3rd ed. 2016, 4th ed. 2021).

Edited Books

  1. Nazan Maksudyan, (ed.), Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014).
  2. Nazan Maksudyan, Hilal Alkan (eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies  (Routledge, 2020).

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. “Special Issue: Children and Political Agency: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from the Middle East”, hg. gemeinsam mit Chiara Diana, Joel Gordon, International Journal of Middle East Studies, forthcoming (2021). https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/06/17/cfp-ijmes-special-issue
  2.  “ ‘Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults’: Yaşar Kemal interviews Street Children 1975”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, forthcoming (2021).
  3. Nazan Maksudyan, "Türkiye’de Irkçılığın “Bilimsel” Temelleri, Türklüğü Ölçmek ve Cumhuriyet Tarihçiliğinin Türkiye Tarihindeki Irkçılığı İnkâr Saplantısı,” [“Scientific” Foundations of Racism in Turkey, Measuring Turkishness, and Republican Historiography's Obsession with Denying Racism in Turkish History] Cogito, no. 101, 2021: 195-209.
  4. Nazan Maksudyan, "The Armenian Genocide and Survival Narratives of Children", Childhood Vulnerability Journal 1/1 (2019): 15-30.
  5. Nazan Maksudyan, “Feminist Perspectives on Ottoman Urban History,” Moderne Stadtgeschichte 1 (2018): 26-38.
  6. Nazan Maksudyan, “La jeunesse ottomane, enjeu des luttes nationales (1914-1922)”, Le Mouvement Social 261 (2017): 9-29.
  7. Nazan Maksudyan, “Max Bonnafous and 'Female Suicide Epidemic' in Istanbul in the 1920s,” Études Sociales 165 (2017): 157-181.
  8. Nazan Maksudyan, “A New Angle of Observation: History of Children and Youth for Ottoman Studies,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) 3/1 (2016): 111-114.
  9. Nazan Maksudyan, “Agents or Pawns? Nationalism and Ottoman Children during the Great War,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) 3/1 (2016): 147-172.
  10. Nazan Maksudyan, “Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey,” Women's History Review 24/6 (2015): 861-880.
  11. Nazan Maksudyan, “Üç Kuşak Üç Katliam: 1894’ten 1915’e Ermeni Çocuklar ve Yetimler,” [Three generations, three massacres: Armenian orphans from 1894 to 1915], Toplum ve Bilim [Society and Science] 132 (2015): 33-49.
  12. Nazan Maksudyan, “Cihan Harbi Yıllarında Almanya’da Osmanlı Yetimleri: Mavi Kep ve Pelerin,” [Ottoman orphans in Germany during the Great War: Blue Ceps and Pelerins] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 243 (2014): 68-73.
  13. Nazan Maksudyan, “Amerikan Kaynaklarında Merzifon Anadolu Koleji’nin Kısa Tarihçesi,” [Short history of the Anatolia College in Merzifon in American missionary sources], Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi 18/36 (2013): 131-154. [OA]
  14. Nazan Maksudyan, “Des convois de gamins. L'envoi de jeunes orphelins ottomans en Allemagne pendant la première guerre mondiale,” Revue d’histoire de l’enfance 'irrégulière' 152 (2013): 111-141.
  15. Nazan Maksudyan, “Evli evine, köylü köyüne, evi olmayan?: Osmanlı Kent Reformu ve Şehirlerde İstenmeyen Çocuklar,” [Ottoman Urban Reform and Unwanted Children in Cities] Kebikeç: İnsan Bilimleri İçin Kaynak Araştırmaları Dergisi 17/34 (2012): 159-183. [OA]
  16. Nazan Maksudyan, “Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and 'Reform' in the Late Ottoman Urban Space,” International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)  43/3 (2011): 493-511.
  17. Nazan Maksudyan, “State 'Parenthood' and Industrial Orphanages (Islahhanes): Transformation of Urbanity and Family Life,” The History of the Family 16/2 (2011): 172-181.
  18. Nazan Maksudyan, “ 'Being Saved to Serve': Armenian Orphans of 1894-96 and Interested Relief in Missionary Orphanages,” Turcica 42 (2010): 47-88. [OA]
  19. Nazan Maksudyan, “Walls of Silence: Translating the Armenian Genocide into Turkish and Self-Censorship,” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 37/4 (2009): 635-649.
  20. Nazan Maksudyan, “Modernization of Welfare or Further Deprivation? State Provisions for Foundlings in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of History of Childhood and Youth 2/3 (2009): 361-392.
  21. Nazan Maksudyan, “Fight over 'Nobody's Children': Religion, Nationality, and Citizenship of Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” New Perspectives on Turkey 41 (2009): 151-180.
  22. Nazan Maksudyan, “Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Kadın İntiharları: Islah, İnkâr, İskât,” [Women Suicides in the Early Republican Era: Reform, Denial, Silencing] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 188, (2009): 60-66.
  23. Nazan Maksudyan, “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Historical Sociology 21/4 (2008): 488-512.
  24. Nazan Maksudyan, “'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] 180 (2008): 34-41.
  25. Nazan Maksudyan, “Cemal Bey'in Adana Valiliği ve Osmanlıcılık İdeali,” [Cemal Bey's Adana Governorship and the Ideal of Ottomanism] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History]176 (2008): 22-28.
  26. Nazan Maksudyan, “Türklüğün Hazineleri ve Mimar Sinan: Kafatasları, Kemikler, Mezarlıklar,” [Treasures of Turkishness and Sinan the Architect: Skulls, Bones, Cemeteries] Arredamento 202 (2007): 60-63.
  27. Nazan Maksudyan, “Bir Sözlükten Büyülenmek: Sir James W. Redhouse Üzerine,”[A Fascinating Dictionary: On James W. Redhouse] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 158 (2007): 34-39.
  28. Nazan Maksudyan, “The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism,” Cultural Dynamics 17/3 (2005): 291-322. [OA]
  29. Nazan Maksudyan, “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] 135 (2005): 56-61.

Book Chapters

  1. Nazan Maksudyan, “The Violence of Denial in Zaven Biberyan's Novels: Impossibility of Coexistence in Post-genocide Turkey,” in Between Coexistence and Separation: Urban Boundaries in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Cities, ed. by Nora Lafi and Florian Riedler (De Gruyter, 2021, forthcoming)
  2. Nazan Maksudyan, “Commemorating the First World War and its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender and the Politics of History in Turkey”, gemeinsam mit Hilal Alkan, in Heritage, Aesthetics and Belonging: Gender in Turkish Neo-Ottomanism, Catharina Raudvere, Petek Onur, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, forthcoming).
  3. Nazan Maksudyan, “Street Vendors in Ottoman Soundscapes: Encounters, Subjectivities, and Power in the Lives of Sounds”, in Acoustics of Empire, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Peter McMurray, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2022, forthcoming).
  4. Nazan Maksudyan, “Role-playing, Unchilding, Victimization: Children and Politics in Turkey”, in Childhood in Turkey: Sociological, Educational and Psychological Perspectives, Hilal H. Şen, Helaine Selin, eds. (Springer, forthcoming).
  5. Nazan Maksudyan, "Küçük Umutlar, Serçeler ve Çocuklar," [Little hopes, sparrows, and children] Bahçelerinde Yaz: Füruzan Edebiyatı Üzerine, [Summer in their Garten: On Füruzan's Literary Career] eds. Hilmi Tezgör, Aslan Erdem (İstanbul: YKY, 2021), 123-140.
  6. Nazan Maksudyan, “The Orphan Nation: Gendered Humanitarianism for Armenian Survivor Children in Istanbul, 1919-1922,” in Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Practice, Politics and the Power of Representation, ed. by Esther Möller, Johannes Paulmann, Katharina Störnig (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 117-142.
  7. Nazan Maksudyan, “Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in ‘Asiatic Turkey’,” in Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, ed. by Karène M. J. Sanchez and Inger Marie Okkenhaug (Brill, 2020), 62-88.
  8. Nazan Maksudyan, “Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople”, in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, hg. v. Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2020-05-18. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11467.
  9. Nazan Maksudyan, “Antaram’s Journey,” in Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing, hg. v. Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, Jane O. Newman, Berlin: transcript, 2020, 93-104.
  10. Nazan Maksudyan, “Queer Characters and Gender Performances in Sait Faik's Works”, in LGBTI+ Studies in Turkey, ed. Çağlar Özbek (London: Transnational Press, 2019), 81-95.
  11. Nazan Maksudyan, “Centenary (Turkey) “, in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, AlanKramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2019-09-03. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11400. [OA]
  12. Nazan Maksudyan, "À la recherche de l’enfance perdue: Resistance du biographique et defense de l’espace public," in Point de fuite La Méditerranée et la crise européenne, ed. by Markus Messling, Franck Hofmann (Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2019), 255-270.
  13. Nazan Maksudyan, “Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During the First World War,” in More Than Victims: War and Childhood in the Age of the World Wars, ed. by Mischa Honeck, James Marten (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 206-228.
  14. Nazan Maksudyan, “In den Park gehen und spielen: Eine neue öffentliche Existenz als Kinder und Jugendliche,” in Fluchtpunkt. Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise, ed. by Franck Hoffman, Markus Messling, (Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2017), 326-340.
  15. Nazan Maksudyan, “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. [OA]
  16. Nazan Maksudyan, “A Triangle of Regrets: Training of Ottoman Children in Germany During the First World War”, in Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After, ed. by Benjamin C. Fortna (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 141-172. [OA]
  17. Nazan Maksudyan, “Missions, 1800-1918”, in Dictionnaire de l'Empire Ottoman, ed. by François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein (Paris: Fayard, 2015), 803-804.
  18. Nazan Maksudyan, “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. [OA]
  19. Nazan Maksudyan, “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, ed. by Michel Espagne, Nora Lafi, Pascale Rabault- Feuerhahn (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2014), 125-134.
  20. Nazan Maksudyan, “Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History,” in Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History, ed. by Nazan Maksudyan (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014), 1-12.
  21. Nazan Maksudyan, “'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, ed. by Nazan Maksudyan (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014), 107-135.
  22. Nazan Maksudyan, “Refugee Ottoman Orphans in Germany during the First World War,” in The World During the First World War, ed. Helmut Bley, Anorthe Kremers ((Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2014), 151-166.
  23. Nazan Maksudyan, “New 'Rules of Conduct' for State, American Missionaries, and Armenians: 1909 Adana Massacres and the Ottoman Orphanage(Dârü'l-Eytâm-ı Osmânî),” in L’ivresse de la Liberté: La Révolution de 1908 dans l’Empire Ottoman, ed. by François Georgeon (Paris: CNRS, 2012), 137-171.
  24. Nazan Maksudyan, “Genel Dünya ve Avrupa Tarihçilerinde 1915-16 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], ed. by Fahri Aral (Istanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2011), 57-84.
  25. Nazan Maksudyan, “Helden, Opfer, Ikonen: Massenmobilisierung und osmanische Kinder während des Ersten Weltkriegs,” in Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan,ed. byJürgen Angelow (Berlin: Be.bra Verlag, 2011), 161-173.
  26. Nazan Maksudyan, “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, ed. by Aurore François, Veerle Massin and David Niget (Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011), 21-39.
  27. Nazan Maksudyan, “Servants,” in AnEncyclopedia of Infanticide, ed. by Brigitte Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), 232-235.
  28. Nazan Maksudyan, “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] ed. by Fatma Türe (Istanbul: Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, 2010), 44-53.
  29. Nazan Maksudyan, “Armenia,” in Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society, ed. by Carlisle, Rodney P. (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2009), 38-39.
  30. Nazan Maksudyan, “Merzifon Anadolu Koleji'nin Kısa Tarihçesi ve Boğos Piranyan,” [Epilogue, Short History of Anatolia 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, 2008), 133-178.

Book Reviews, Review Essays, Book Forums

  1. Nazan Maksudyan: "Johnson, Robert; Kitchen, James E. (Hrsg.): The Great War in the Middle East. A Clash of Empires. Abingdon 2019. ISBN 9781138731332," in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 04.06.2021.
  2. Nazan Maksudyan, “This Is a Man’s World?”: On Fathers and Architects,” [Book Forum: Hans-Lukas Kieser, Talaat Pasha: Father Of Modern Turkey, Architect Of Genocide (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)] Journal of Genocide Research 21/4 (2019): 540-544.
  3. Nazan Maksudyan, (2019). “The Long End of the First World War Book,” by Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau, Anorthe Wetzel (eds.), Aurum Journal of Social Sciences, 4/1 (2019), 115-118.
  4. Nazan Maksudyan, “Ottoman Women during World War I: Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict,” by Elif Mahir Metinsoy (Book review) Journal of Social History 53/1 (2019): 295-297.
  5. Nazan Maksudyan, “Urban Planning in North Africa,” by Carlos Nunes Silva (Book review) Planning Perspectives 33/4 (2018): 678-681.
  6. Nazan Maksudyan, “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
  7. Nazan Maksudyan, “The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History,” by Talin Suciyan (Book Review) Global Affairs 2 (2016): 234-236.
  8. Nazan Maksudyan, “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
  9. Nazan Maksudyan, “Self, Family, and Society: Individual and Communal Reflections on the Armenian Genocide,” (Review Essay) Journal of Levantine Studies 5/2 (2015): 197-206.
  10. Nazan Maksudyan, “Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity,” by Kent F. Schull, (Book review) International Journal of Middle East Studies 47/1 (2015): 202-204.
  11. Nazan Maksudyan, “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 56/4 (2014): 778-781.
  12. Nazan Maksudyan, “Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House,” by Esra Akcan, (Book review) Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online 1 (2013): http://middleeastreviewsonline.com/membr_review/architecture-in-translation-germany-turkey-and-the-modern-house/ [OA]
  13. Nazan Maksudyan, “Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948,” by Tara Zahra, (Book review) Canadian Journal of History 45/2 (2010): 391-393.
  14. Nazan Maksudyan, “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 42 (2010): 265-268.
  15. Nazan Maksudyan, “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 (IJMES) 42/2 (2010): 336-338.
  16. Nazan Maksudyan, “Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900,” by Dror Ze’evi, (Book review) AGOS Kirk  4 (2009): 6-7.
  17. Nazan Maksudyan, “Smyrne, la Ville Oubliée? : Mémoires d'un Grand Port Ottoman, 1830-1930,” by Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (ed.), (Book review) AGOS Kirk 2 (2008): 8-9.
  18. Nazan Maksudyan, “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 1/3 (2008): 472-474.
  19. Nazan Maksudyan, “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 38 (2008): 275-79.

Essays & Literary Criticism

  1. Nazan Maksudyan, “İnsanlar Mezarlarda Yaşamaya Devam Etmiyorlardı.” [People did not continue to live in their graves] Notos 89 (Zaven Biberyan Doğumunun 100. Yılında) [Zaven Biberyan is 100 years old!] (2021): 56-60.
  2. Nazan Maksudyan, "En Sevdiğim Tek Kardeşim," [My favorite and only sister] 5harfliler, 9 July 2021, online: https://www.5harfliler.com/en-sevdigim-tek-kardesim/
  3. Nazan Maksudyan, "Tasnifsiz Arşiv," [Unclassified Archive], 5harfliler, 12 February 2021, online: https://www.5harfliler.com/tasnifsiz-arsiv/
  4. Nazan Maksudyan, "Mutedil Dalgalanma," [Moderate Fluctuation], 5harfliler, 5 February 2021, online: https://www.5harfliler.com/mutedil-dalgalanma/
  5. Nazan Maksudyan, "Temassız Hayat Noktası," [Contactless Life Point], 5harfliler, 29 January 2021, online: https://www.5harfliler.com/temassiz-hayat-noktasi/
  6. Nazan Maksudyan, “Bir Avuç Leblebiyi Paylaşan Masal Kahramanları," [Fairytale heroes sharing a fist full of chickpeas] in Elveda Antura: Bir Ermeni Yetimin Anıları [Goodbye Antoura: Memoirs of an Armenian Orphan] (Istanbul: Aras Yayıncılık, 2018), 389-398.
  7. Nazan Maksudyan, “Antarams Reise, ” leibniz — Das Magazin der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 2017 (2): 64-69.
  8. Nazan Maksudyan, “Acıların Mezatı: Yetimler, Hayırseverlik ve Sinema,” [Auction of Sorrows: Orphans, Philanthropy, and Cinema], şerhh 6 (2017): 36–44.
  9. Nazan Maksudyan, “Franz Werfel'de Suçluluk ve Cezasızlık,” [Franz Werfel on Guilt and Unpunished Crimes], şerhh 5 (2017): 47-52.
  10. Nazan Maksudyan, “Hem Ermeni Hem Yetimdik / Soykırım Tanıklıklarında Çocukluk ve Büyümek,” [We were both Armenians and Orphans: Childhood and Growing up in Genocide Testimonies] Notos 55 (Dec. 2015 – Jan. 2016): 52-58.
  11. Nazan Maksudyan, “Doğumhanede Zamansız Bir Gece,” [An untimely Night at the Labor Room] Cogito 81 (2015): 219-224.
  12. Nazan Maksudyan, “ ‘Demek annen baban seni çok sevdi?’: Güzel Bir Aşk Hikayesi ve Mutlu bir Aşk Çocuğu,” [So your parents loved you a lot? A love story and a love child] Kitap-lık 151 (2011): 96-101.
  13. Nazan Maksudyan, “Benim Annem Paskalya Çöreği...,” [My mother is Easter Cake] Kitap-lık 148 (2011): 102-105.
  14. Nazan Maksudyan, “Antaram'ın Yolculuğu,” [Antaram’s Journey] Kitap-lık 145 (2011): 68-71.
  15. Nazan Maksudyan, “ ‘Talihiniz yüzel olsun!’: Pepo Dedemin Gençliğine Hitaben,” [May your destiny bring also beauty: My Grandfather’s Youthfulness] Kitap-lık 138 (2010): 49-55.
  16. Nazan Maksudyan, “Mavi Bir Pencere Açalım mı Kalbine?” [Shall we open a blue window on your chest?] Kitap-lık 133 (2009): 75-85.
  17. Nazan Maksudyan, “Çelişkiler Gezegeni: Roman ve Modern,“ [Planet of Contradictions: The Novel and the Modern] Mesele (Nov 2009).
  18. Nazan Maksudyan, “Milan Kundera ve Varoluşa Dair,” [Milan Kundera and the Human Existence] Mesele (Aug 2008): 4-9.
  19. Nazan Maksudyan, “Hiçbir Şey Aydınlanmayacak: Kara Kitap ve Esrarın Bakiliği,” [Nothing will be illuminated: the Black Book and the permanence of mystery] Mesele (Nov 2008): 4-8.

Review of Books

  1. Review of Women and the City, Women in the City by Derya İner, in Women’s History Review 26 (2017): 660-662.
  2. Review of Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Cihangir Gündoğdu, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76 (2017): 209-211.
  3. Review of Women and the City, Women in the City by N. İpek Hüner-Cora, in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 3/1 (2016): 203-206.
  4. Review of Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Heidi Morrison, in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 8/2 (2015): 327-329.
  5. Review of Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Özge Ertem, New Perspectives on Turkey 53 (2015): 228-231.
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