Prof. Dr. Nazan Maksudyan

Publikationen

List of Publications

Monographs

1. Nazan Maksudyan, Rebellious Misfits: Self-Representations of Armenian Children who Survived the Genocide, in Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture Series, eds. Janico Albrecht, Jeannine Bischoff, Sarah Dusend, Volume 29 (Berlin: EB Verlag, 2025).
2. Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during the World War One (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019).
3. Nazan Maksudyan, Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014).
4. 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;

   2^nd 2007;

   3^rd ed. 2016, 4^th ed. 2021, 5^th ed. 2025).

Edited Volumes

1. Eren Yıldırım Yetkin, Nazan Maksudyan, Adnan Çelik (Eds.), Lives in Fragments. Narrative Sources and Biographical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide (New York: Berghahn, 2026).
2. Nazan Maksudyan, Hilal Alkan (Eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies (Routledge, 2020).
3. Nazan Maksudyan (Ed.), Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014).

Journal Articles

1. Nazan Maksudyan (2026), “Isolation, Mediation and Audible Refuge: Gerhard Kessler’s Radio Diary in Istanbul”, Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire 45 (forthcoming).
2. Nazan Maksudyan (2025) „Vavien. İmparatorluk’tan Cumhuriyet’e Türk-Alman Teknoloji, İhtisas ve Emek Dolaşımı“ [Post-imperial Afterlives of Circulation of Technology, Expertise, and Labor between Turkey and Germany], Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 377 (May): 40-45.
3. Nazan Maksudyan (2024). “Beyond Borders and Binaries: Young Ottoman Women’s Experiments with Gender, Body, and Sexuality in Germany During World War I.” First World War Studies, 15(3), 353–376.
4. Nazan Maksudyan and Hilal Alkan (2024). “Exile and Fieldwork as Liminal Conditions: Leonore Kosswig’s Life and Research in Turkey, 1937–1973.” Women’s History Review 34(6): 973–1001.
5. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), “The Genocidal Disruption of Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) Lifework: A Biographical Approach to Mass Violence and Indigenous Knowledge Production.” Contemporary Levant 9 (2): 138–54.
6. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), “Afterlives of Ottoman Orphans in Germany during World War I: Microhistorical and Biographical Approaches to Technology, Expertise, and Labor in Turkey”, German Studies Review 2: 223–251.
7. Nazan Maksudyan (2024) “Sound-Writing Technologies and Early Field Recordings in the Ottoman Empire”, Social Review of Technology and Change, vol. 2 no. 1: 1 – 21.
8. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), „Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history,“ Women’s History Review 33(2): 223-243.
9. Burcu Alkan, Nazan Maksudyan (2023), “Children at the Margins of Labour Migration in Füruzan’s Works after Germany,” tuded: Journal of Turkish Language and Literature 63(2), 115–139.
10. Nazan Maksudyan (2023). “The fall of a city: Refugees, exodus and exile in Ernest Hemingway’s Istanbul, 1922”. Journal of European Studies. 53(3), 234-252.
11. Nazan Maksudyan (2023). „For the Holy War and Motherland: Ottoman State Orphanages (Darüleytams) in the Context of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide, in special issue „Kinder in Heimen“, ed. by Anelia Kassabova, Sandra Maß (Hg.). L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 34/1: 39-59.
12. Nazan Maksudyan (2023). “Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s”. History of the Human Sciences, 36(2), 154-177.
13. Nazan Maksudyan (2022). “ ‘Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults’: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 1975.’ International Journal of Middle East Studies 54(1): 1–20.
14. Nazan Maksudyan, Burcu Alkan (2022). “Embracing embodiedness, desire and failure: Women’s fluid gender performances in Sevgi Soysal’s oeuvre from the 1960s.” Journal of European Studies 52 (2): 111-128.
15. Nazan Maksudyan (2022), “Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors’ Cries”, trans. by Katerina Stathi, Historika 74, 32-60 [in Greek: „Συνάντηση και μνήμη σε οθωμανικά ηχοτοπία: ένα οπτικοακουστικό άμλπουμ των φωνών των πλανόδιων πωλητών“, μτφρ. Κατερίνα Στάθη, Τα Ιστορικά, τχ. 74, Απρ. 2022, σ. 32-60.]
16. Nazan Maksudyan (2021). “Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben’s Exile and Internment in Turkey.” ZMO Working Papers 29, https://d-nb.info/1245030418/34
17. Nazan Maksudyan (2021), „Türkiye’de Irkçılığın “Bilimsel” Temelleri, Türklüğü Ölçmek ve Cumhuriyet Tarihçiliğinin Türkiye Tarihindeki Irkçılığı İnkâr Saplantısı,” [‘Scientific’ Foundations of Racism in Turkey, Measuring Turkishness (Maksudyan 2005) and Republican Historiography’s Obsession with Denying Racism in Turkish History]Cogito, no. 101, 195-209.
18. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “The Armenian Genocide and Survival Narratives of Children”, Childhood Vulnerability Journal 1/1: 15-30.
19. Nazan Maksudyan (2018), “Feminist Perspectives on Ottoman Urban History,” Moderne Stadtgeschichte 1: 26-38.
20. Nazan Maksudyan (2017), “La jeunesse ottomane, enjeu des luttes nationales (1914-1922)”, Le Mouvement Social 261: 9-29.
21. Nazan Maksudyan (2017), “Max Bonnafous and ‚Female Suicide Epidemic‘ in Istanbul in the 1920s,” Études Sociales 165: 157-181.
22. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “A New Angle of Observation: History of Children and Youth for Ottoman Studies,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) 3/1: 111-114.
23. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “Agents or Pawns? Nationalism and Ottoman Children during the Great War,” Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) 3/1: 147-172.
24. Nazan Maksudyan (2015), “Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey,” Women’s History Review 24/6: 861-880.
25. Nazan Maksudyan (2015), “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: 33-49.
26. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “Cihan Harbi Yıllarında Almanya’da Osmanlı Yetimleri: Mavi Kep ve Pelerin,” [Ottoman orphans in Germany during the Great War: Blue Caps and Cloaks] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 243: 68-73.
27. Nazan Maksudyan (2013), “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: 131-154.
28. Nazan Maksudyan (2013), “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: 111-141.
29. Nazan Maksudyan (2012), “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: 159-183.
30. Nazan Maksudyan (2011a), “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: 493-511.
31. Nazan Maksudyan (2011b), “State ‚Parenthood‘ and Industrial Orphanages (Islahhanes): Transformation of Urbanity and Family Life,” The History of the Family 16/2: 172-181.
32. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “ ‚Being Saved to Serve‘: Armenian Orphans of 1894-96 and Interested Relief in Missionary Orphanages,” Turcica 42: 47-88.
33. Nazan Maksudyan (2009), “Walls of Silence: Translating the Armenian Genocide into Turkish and Self-Censorship,” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 37/4: 635-649.
34. Nazan Maksudyan (2009a), “Modernization of Welfare or Further Deprivation? State Provisions for Foundlings in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of History of Childhood and Youth 2/3: 361-392.
35. Nazan Maksudyan (2009b), “Fight over ‚Nobody’s Children‘: Religion, Nationality, and Citizenship of Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire,” New Perspectives on Turkey 41: 151-180.
36. Nazan Maksudyan (2009), “Erken Cumhuriyet Döneminde Kadın İntiharları: Islah, İnkâr, İskât,” [Women Suicides in the Early Republican Era: Reform, Denial, Silencing] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History] 188: 60-66.
37. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Historical Sociology 21/4: 488-512.
38. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “Cemal Bey’in Adana Valiliği ve Osmanlıcılık İdeali,” [Cemal Bey’s Adana Governorship and the Ideal of Ottomanism] Toplumsal Tarih [Social History]176: 22-28.
39. Nazan Maksudyan (2007), “Türklüğün Hazineleri ve Mimar Sinan: Kafatasları, Kemikler, Mezarlıklar,” [Treasures of Turkishness and Sinan the Architect: Skulls, Bones, Cemeteries] Arredamento 202: 60-63.
40. Nazan Maksudyan (2005), “The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism,” Cultural Dynamics 17/3: 291-322.

Book Chapters

1. Nazan Maksudyan (2025). “Rural Child Welfare, Gendered Community Work, and Intersectionality: Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s Migration from Nazi Germany to Turkey.” In: Women, Migration and the Exchange of Knowledge from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Nicoleta Roman , Beatrice Zucca Micheletto (Palgrave Macmillan), 113-141.
2. Nazan Maksudyan (2025). “Crime and Non-punishment: Legacies of Genocide and Denial in Turkey”. In: Dinç, P., Hünler, O.S. (eds) The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues. (Palgrave Macmillan). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1583-4_3
3. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), “Encounter and Memory in Ottoman Soundscapes: An Audiovisual Album of Street Vendors’ Cries”, in Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century, Peter McMurray, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2024), 55-85.
4. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), „Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben’s Exile and Internment in Turkey”, in Academics in a Century of Displacement: The Global History and Politics of Protecting Endangered Scholars, eds. by Leyla Dakhli, Pascale Laborier, Frank Wolff (Springer), 101-128.
5. Nazan Maksudyan (2024), “Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema,” In: Kühne, T., Rein, M.J., Mamigonian (eds.), Documenting the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan), 73-100.
6. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), „Great War and the State Orphanages (Darüleytam)“, in Familie und Krieg: Erfahrung, Fürsorge und Leitbilder von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, Alexander Denzler, Andreas Hartmann, Kathrin Kiefer, Markus Raasch (Hg.) (Farkfurt: Campus Verlag), 111-139.
7. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), „Foreword,“ in Spectacle, Entertainment, and Recreation in Late Ottoman and Early Turkish Republican Cities, ed. by Nilay Karaca and Seda Kula (Bristol, Chicago: Intellect, 2023), xvii-xxii.
8. Nazan Maksudyan, Hilal Alkan (2023). “Commemorating the First World War and Its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender, and the Politics of History in Turkey”. In: Raudvere, C., Onur, P. (eds) Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4_7
9. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), ‚Youth Cultures of Activism and Politics‘, in James Marten (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture, Oxford Handbooks (2023;

   online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Apr. 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920753.013.27

10. Nazan Maksudyan (2022). „Gendered Violence against Children during the Armenian Genocide,“ In ‚For Civilisation‘: The First World War in the Middle East 1914 – 1923, edited by Pieter Trogh. (TIJDSBEELD), 78-83.
11. Nazan Maksudyan (2022), “Children and Politics in Turkey: Role-Playing, Unchilding, Victimization,” In Childhood in Turkey: Educational, Sociological, and Psychological Perspectives, eds. by Hilal H. Şen, Helaine Selin, (Springer International Publishing),107-121, ⟨1007/978-3-031-08208-5_8⟩
12. Nazan Maksudyan (2021). “Küçük Umutlar, Serçeler ve Çocuklar,” [Little Hopes, Sparrows, and children] In Bahçelerinde Yaz: Füruzan Edebiyatı Üzerine [Summer in Their Garden: On Oeuvres of Füruzan] ( Istanbul: YKY), 123-140.
13. Nazan Maksudyan (2020), “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), 117-142.
14. Nazan Maksudyan (2020), “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), 62-88.
15. Nazan Maksudyan (2020), “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.
16. Nazan Maksudyan (2020), “Antaram’s Journey,” in Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing, hg. v. Vanessa Agnew, Kader Konuk, Jane O. Newman (Berlin: transcript), 93-104.
17. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “Queer Characters and Gender Performances in Sait Faik’s Works”, in LGBTI+ Studies in Turkey, ed. Çağlar Özbek (London: Transnational Press), 81-95.
18. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “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.
19. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), „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), 255-270.
20. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “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), 206-228.
21. Nazan Maksudyan (2017), “In den Park gehen und spielen: Eine neue öffentliche Existenz als Kinder und Jugendliche,” in Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise, ed. by Franck Hoffman, Markus Messling, (Kulturverlag Kadmos), 326-340.
22. Nazan Maksudyan (2017), “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.
23. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “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), 141-172.
24. Nazan Maksudyan (2015), “Missions, 1800-1918”, in Dictionnaire de l’Empire Ottoman, ed. by François Georgeon, Nicolas Vatin, Gilles Veinstein (Paris: Fayard), 803-804.
25. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “Children and Youth (Ottoman Empire),” in 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, 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.
26. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “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), 125-134.
27. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “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), 1-12.
28. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “’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), 107-135.
29. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “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), 151-166.
30. Nazan Maksudyan (2012), “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), 137-171.
31. Nazan Maksudyan (2011), “Helden, Opfer, Ikonen: Massenmobilisierung und osmanische Kinder während des Ersten Weltkriegs,” in Der Erste Weltkrieg auf dem Balkan, by Jürgen Angelow (Berlin: Be.bra Verlag), 161-173.
32. Nazan Maksudyan (2011), “Children as a Transgressors in Urban Space: Delinquency, Public Order and Philanthropy in the Ottoman Reform Era,” in Expertise and Juvenile Violence, 19^th-21^st century, ed. by Aurore François, Veerle Massin and David Niget (Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain), 21-39.
33. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “Servants,” in An Encyclopedia of Infanticide, ed. by Brigitte Bechtold and Donna Cooper Graves (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press), 232-235.
34. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “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), 44-53.
35. Nazan Maksudyan (2009), “Armenia,” in Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, by Carlisle, Rodney P. (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications), 38-39.
36. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “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), 133-178.

Book Reviews

1. Nazan Maksudyan. (2025) Book review. “Hans-Lukas Kieser, Pearl Nunn, and Thomas Schmutz , ed. Remembering the Great War in the Middle East: From Turkey and Armenia to Australia and New Zealand. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022., xi+304 p.” Turcica 56. 552-555.
2. Nazan Maksudyan. (2025) “Suraiya Faroqhi. Women in the Ottoman Empire. A Social and Political History. I.B. Tauris, London [Etc.] 2023. Xxiv, 304 Pp. Ill. £65.00. (Paper: £21.99;

   E-Book: £19.79.).” International Review of Social History 70 (1):151-153.

3. Nazan Maksudyan. (2023) « Book Review – Houbouyan-Coutant (Paulette), Les Arméniennes de l’Empire ottoman à l’école de la France (1840-1915) : Stratégies missionnaires et mutations d’une société traditionnelle, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2020, 596 p. » Turcica 53, 428-431.
4. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), “Book Review – Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean. By Andreas Guidi,” Journal of Social History, 57/2: 353-354.
5. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), « François Georgeon , Douze essais sur l’histoire de l’empire Ottoman aux XIXe–XXe Siècles. Istanbul: Les Éditions Isis, 2022, 224 pages. » New Perspectives on Turkey 68 : 127-129.
6. Nazan Maksudyan (2022). “Book Review: “Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire: From the 15th to the 20th Century ed. by Gülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 15 (3): 458-460.
7. Nazan Maksudyan (2021). „Word, Voice, Taste“. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies28: 1-5
8. Nazan Maksudyan (2021) “Book Review: Johnson, Robert;

   Kitchen, James E. (Hrsg.): The Great War in the Middle East. A Clash of Empires. Abingdon 2019. ISBN 9781138731332,” in: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 04.06.2021.

9. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “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: 540-544.
10. 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 : 115-118.
11. Nazan Maksudyan (2019), “Ottoman Women during World War I: Everyday Experiences, Politics, and Conflict,” by Elif Mahir Metinsoy (Book review) Journal of Social History 53/1: 295-297.
12. Nazan Maksudyan (2021), “Urban Planning in North Africa,” by Carlos Nunes Silva (Book review) Planning Perspectives 33/4: 678-681.
13. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey,” by Lerna Ekmekcioğlu (Book review) New Perspectives on Turkey 55: 136-140.
14. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History,” by Talin Suciyan (Book Review) Global Affairs 2: 234-236.
15. Nazan Maksudyan (2016), “Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East,” by Avner Giladi (Book Review) The American Historical Review 121: 682-683.
16. Nazan Maksudyan (2015), “Self, Family, and Society: Individual and Communal Reflections on the Armenian Genocide,” (Review Essay) Journal of Levantine Studies 5/2: 197-206.
17. Nazan Maksudyan (2015), “Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity,” by Kent F. Schull, (Book review) International Journal of Middle East Studies 47/1: 202-204.
18. Nazan Maksudyan (2014), “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: 778-781.
19. Nazan Maksudyan (2013), “Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House,” by Esra Akcan, (Book review) Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online 1: http://middleeastreviewsonline.com/membr_review/architecture-in-translation-germany-turkey-and-the-modern-house/
20. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “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: 391-393.
21. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “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): 265-268.
22. Nazan Maksudyan (2010), “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: 336-338.
23. Nazan Maksudyan (2009), “Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900,” by Dror Ze’evi, (Book review) AGOS Kirk 4: 6-7.
24. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “Smyrne, la Ville Oubliée? : Mémoires d’un Grand Port Ottoman, 1830-1930,” by Marie-Carmen Smyrnelis (ed.), (Book review) AGOS Kirk 2: 8-9.
25. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “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: 472-474.
26. Nazan Maksudyan (2008), “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: 275-79.

Online-Publications

1. Nazan Maksudyan (2026), “UnArchive: Sonic Materialities and Sound Media of Migration”, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 25.01.2026, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63918
2. Nazan Maksudyan (2025), “Decolonization of Migration in Divided Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Artistic Representations of Migrant Subjectivities in the 1970s”, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 07.01.2025, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/54104
3. Nazan Maksudyan (2023), “Empire, Sound, and Disability: Deaf Culture and Education in the Ottoman Empire”, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 21.12.2023, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/49793

Podcasts / Interviews / Videos

1. Mit Joseph Ben Prestel, “Solidarity with Palestinians in the BRD”, Radio Marc Bloch – #25

04.03.2024

2. “Minorities and Children’s Rights,” Minority Positions: Podcast of Hrant Dink Foundation, 10.12.2024, https://open.spotify.com/episode/0lFl3gYNSATnqVvSWndBu9?si=PXbeWbd4RmKwCO–y9pSIw
3. „Reflecting upon Armenian orphans“, Parrhesia Collective Webinar, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/live/O6t8YPfEVrU?si=wJYpVmszTGZTyxuQ

4.     Mit Gwendolyn Sasse, Thomas Prinzler, „Freiräume und Limits von Forschung in autoritären Ländern (Folge #03)“, BR 50 Podcast, 31.03.2022, https://www.br50.org/podcast/episode/forschung-autoritaere-laender-folge-03

5. Mit Efruz Kaya, Koray Başar, Hazal Özvarış, “Silenced Histories of Trans and Intersex Children”, Atlas of Justice [Adalet Atlası], 2022, https://youtu.be/d-KomGCXTpk?si=-m2xRY8lZWY1D85z

Essays und Literary Criticism

1. Nazan Maksudyan. “İnsanlar Mezarlarda Yaşamaya Devam Etmiyorlardı.” (Zaven Biberyan Doğumunun 100. Yılında) . Notos, 2021. Nazan Maksudyan, Decolonization of Migration in Divided Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm and Artistic Representations of Migrant Subjectivities in the 1970s, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 07.01.2025, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/54104
2. 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.
3. Nazan Maksudyan, „Zaven Biberyan Romanlarında İnkârın Şiddeti.“ şerhh 7 (2018): 19-27.
4. Nazan Maksudyan, “Antarams Reise, ” leibniz — Das Magazin der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 2017 (2): 64-69.
5. Nazan Maksudyan, “Acıların Mezatı: Yetimler, Hayırseverlik ve Sinema,” [Auction of Sorrows: Orphans, Philanthropy, and Cinema], şerhh 6 (2017): 36–44.
6. Nazan Maksudyan, “Franz Werfel’de Suçluluk ve Cezasızlık,” [Franz Werfel on Guilt and Unpunished Crimes], şerhh 5 (2017): 47-52.
7. 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 ( 2015 – Jan. 2016): 52-58.
8. Nazan Maksudyan, “Doğumhanede Zamansız Bir Gece,” [An untimely Night at the Labor Room] Cogito 81 (2015): 219-224.
9. 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.
10. Nazan Maksudyan, “Benim Annem Paskalya Çöreği…,” [My mother is Easter Cake] Kitap-lık 148 (2011): 102-105.
11. Nazan Maksudyan, “Antaram’ın Yolculuğu,” [Antaram’s Journey] Kitap-lık 145 (2011): 68-71.
12. 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.
13. Nazan Maksudyan, “Mavi Bir Pencere Açalım mı Kalbine?” [Shall we open a blue window on your chest?] Kitap-lık 133 (2009): 75-85.
14. Nazan Maksudyan, “Çelişkiler Gezegeni: Roman ve Modern,“ [Planet of Contradictions: The Novel and the Modern] Mesele (Nov 2009).
15. Nazan Maksudyan, “Milan Kundera ve Varoluşa Dair,” [Milan Kundera and the Human Existence] Mesele (Aug 2008): 4-9.
16. 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.

Reviews of Books

Ottoman Children and Youth during the World (2019)

1. Review by Kelly Hannavi, Études Arméniennes Contemporaines 15 (2023): 246-248.
2. Review by Melanie S. Tanielian, The American Historical Review 126/1 (2021): 423–424,
3. Review by Oya Aktaş, H-War (2021), https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55101
4. Review by Heidi Morrison, International Journal of Middle East Studies 52/3 (2020): 580–581.
5. Review by Pınar Odabaşı Taşcı, Europe Now Journal (2020), https://www.europenowjournal.org/2020/08/02/ottoman-children-and-youth-during-the-world-war-by-maksudyan-nazan/
6. Review by Karen Vallgårda, TRAFO Blog (2019), https://trafo.hypotheses.org/19565

Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (2014)

1. Review by Renée Worringer, Canadian Journal of History 52/3 (2017): 635-637.
2. Review by Cihangir Gündoğdu, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76 (2017): 209-211.
3. Review by Kathryn Libal, International Journal of Middle East Studies 48/3 (2016): 613-615.
4. Review by Ella Ayalon, in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 3/2 (2016), 388-390.
5. Review by Yaşar Tolga Cora, Review of Middle East Studies 50/1 (2016): 101-103.
6. Review by Heidi Morrison, in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 8/2 (2015): 327-329.
7. Review by Özge Ertem, New Perspectives on Turkey 53 (2015): 228-231.

Women and the City, Women in the City (2014)

1. Review by Derya İner, in Women’s History Review 26 (2017): 660-662.
2. Review by N. İpek Hüner-Cora, in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 3/1 (2016): 203-206.