Prof. Dr. Nazan Maksudyan

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsEconomic and Social History,Modern and Contemporary History
KeywordsOttoman modernization, history of children and youth, urban history, women's history
Honours and awards

2019: Einstein Gastprofessorin - Freie Universität Berlin

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBerlin
InstitutionCentre Marc Bloch

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ulrike FreitagGeisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V., Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrike FreitagLeibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e.V. (GWZ), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2011

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2011Nazan Maksudyan: “Helden, Opfer, Ikonen: Massenmobilisierung und osmanische Kinder während des Ersten Weltkriegs”. In: Jürgen Angelow Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan. Be.Bra Verlag, 2011. 161-173
2011Nazan Maksudyan: “On Dokuzuncu Yüzyılda Osmanlı Kadın Örgütleri ve Siyasi Eylemlilik” [Women's Organizations and Political Agency in the Nineteenth Century]. In: Fatma Türe, İstanbul Kadın-Kadın İstanbul: Osmanlı Döneminde İstanbul'da Kadın Hareketleri [Women and Istanbul: Women's Movements in Ottoman Istanbul]. Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi, 2011.
2011Nazan Maksudyan: “Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and 'Reform' in the Late Ottoman Urban Space”. In: International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2011, 493-511
2011Nazan Maksudyan: “State 'Parenthood' and Industrial Orphanages (Islâhhanes): Transformation of Urbanity and Family Life”. In: The History of the Family, 2011, 172-181
2011Nazan Maksudyan: “Street Children as a Transgression in the New Bourgeois Urban Space: Expertise on Juvenile Delinquency, Public Order and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire”. In: Aurore François, Veerle Massin, David Niget Expertise and Juvenile Violence, 19th-21st century. Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011. 21-39
2010Nazan Maksudyan: “ 'Being Saved to Serve': Armenian Orphans of 1894-96 and Interested Relief in Missionary Orphanages”. In: Turcica, 2010, 47-88
2009Nazan Maksudyan: “Fight over 'Nobody's Children': Religion, Nationality, and Citizenship of Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire”. In: New Perspectives on Turkey, 2009, 151-180
2009Nazan Maksudyan: “Guardians of Abandoned Children: Provisions for the Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire”. In: Journal of History of Childhood and Youth, 2009, 361-392
2009Nazan Maksudyan: “Walls of Silence: Translating the Armenian Genocide into Turkish and Self-Censorship'. In: Critique, 2009, 635-649
2008Nazan Maksudyan: “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire”. In: Journal of Historical Sociology, 2008, 488-512
2005Nazan 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]. Metis, 2005