Nazan Maksudyan is Senior Researcher and head of the Centre Marc Bloch research team in the UKRI-funded research project, “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1914” (OTTOMAN AURALITIES; (replaced) ERC Starting Grant 2021; Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter McMurray, University of Cambridge). She is a Board Memeber of the Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) and Journal of Women's History. From 2019 to 2022, Maksudyan was an Einstein guest professor in the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at the Freie Universität Berlin. She was a »Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe« (EUME) Fellow in 2009 and 2010 at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin) in 2010 – 2011 and in 2016 and 2018. From 2013 to 2016, she worked as a professor of history in Istanbul and received her habilitation degree in 2015. Her research mainly focuses on the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire (18th–20th centuries) and modern Turkey, with special interest in children and youth, gender, sexuality, and the history of sciences. Among her publications are Ottoman Children & Youth During World War I (2019), “Control over Life, Control over Body: Female Suicide in Early Republican Turkey” (2016), Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire (2014), Women and the City, Women in the City (ed., 2014), Ottoman Children and Youth during WW1 (2019), Urban Neighborhood Formations (ed. with Hilal Alkan, 2020).

History

Ottoman Studies

Turkish Studies

Urban Studies

Gender/Women's Studies

Anatolia

Balkans

Arab States

Ottoman History Of Childhood An Youth

Ottoman Women's Organizations

Industrial Education In The Provinces

Turkish (native)

English (advanced)

French (advanced)

Osmanli (advanced)

Armenian (intermediate)

German (intermediate)