Nazan Maksudyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 530128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nazan Maksudyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nazan |
| FAMILY NAME | Maksudyan |
| SIGNATURE | MAKSUDYAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre Marc Bloch |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0918-7807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Isolation, Mediation and Audible Refuge: Gerhard Kessler’s Radio Diary in Istanbul
The article contributes to three areas of research: German exile biographies, particularly Gerhard Kessler’s (1883‐1963) exile in Istanbul; German/Jewish émigré academics in Turkey during the 1930s and 1940s; and the history of radio usage during World War II. These three areas correspond to the three levels of isolation that characterised Kessler’s exile as well as his radiophonic responses to it. Furthermore, these domains correspond to three a…
Medical inspection and intervention in rural domestic spaces in Turkey: The 1938 village surveys of Albert Eckstein and Erna Ecsktein-Schlossmann
This article is situated at the intersection of the history of health and welfare, transnational expertise, and the invisibility of women in the history of science. Maksudyan focuses on an epidemiological survey on children’s health in rural Turkey, undertaken in 1938 by Erna Ecsktein Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), an established German-Jewish paediatrician couple in exile. These village health surveys were state-sponsor…
Beyond Borders and Binaries: Young Ottoman Women’s Experiments with Gender, Body, and Sexuality in Germany During World War I
In contrast to their male counterparts in apprenticeships, secondary education and technical training, there is a gap in scholarship on the education of (Muslim, unmarried) Ottoman women in Germany during the First World War as part of an educational collaboration between two empires. This article presents a wealth of new insights into the lives of this group of young women, based on research into official documentation from the Ottoman Prime Min…
The genocidal disruption of Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) lifework: A biographical approach to mass violence and indigenous knowledge production
International audience
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's exile years in Turkey, 1935-1950: A Biographical and Gendered Approach to Migration History
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), a pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to hand in their official resignations after being declared as ‘Jews’ according to the laws of 1933 and 1935. Albert Eckstein accepted the offer of the Turkish government to become the head of the pediatric clinic of Ankara Hospital. Relying on a biographical approach and utilizing ego-documents, such as memoirs, letters, and travelog…
Exile and fieldwork as liminal conditions: Leonore Kosswig's life and research in Turkey, 1937-1973
This paper looks into the life and ethnographic work of Leonore Kosswig (1904–1973), who lived in Turkey as a German exile from 1937 until her death in 1973. While her husband, Curt Kosswig was invited to Istanbul University as a full professor, Leonore had no institutional affiliation. However, she traveled with her husband around Anatolia and joined his fieldwork, during which she developed an interest in local customs and the daily life of vil…
The fall of a city: Refugees, exodus and exile in Ernest Hemingway’s Istanbul, 1922
Ernest Hemingway arrived in Istanbul on 30 September 1922 to cover the end of the Greek–Turkish War for the Toronto Star. From late October to mid-November 1922, Hemingway wrote 20 articles about the last days of the war and the re-constellation of political legitimacy in the region. There are four distinguishing features of Hemingway’s reports from Constantinople. First, they provided an eloquent depiction of the city, suggesting the charm and s…
François Georgeon , Douze essais sur l’histoire de l’empire Ottoman aux XIXe–XXe Siècles. Istanbul: Les Éditions Isis, 2022, 224 pages
International audience
Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean . By Andreas Guidi
International audience
Embracing embodiedness, desire and failure: Women’s fluid gender performances in Sevgi Soysal’s oeuvre from the 1960s
The ‘women’s liberation’ of the global 1960s did not entail a full range of women’s rights, feminist politics and sexual freedoms in Turkey. On the contrary, the Turkish 1960s were characterised by a patriarchal heteronormative order that imprisoned women in a passive and essentially asexual identity and denied them control over their bodies. In Turkey, women’s emancipation was postponed. At the same time, the 1960s offered a juncture of literary…
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s
This article situates the trajectory of the academic life of Seniha Tunakan (1908–2000) within the development of anthropology as a scientific discipline in Turkey and its transnational connections to Europe during the interwar period and up until the second half of the 20th century. Relying on the archives of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes in Germany, a…
Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 1975
In 1975, the world-famous novelist Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015) undertook a series of journalistic interviews with street children in Istanbul. The series, entitled "Children Are Human" (Çocuklar İnsandır), reflects the author's rebellious attitude as well as the revolutionary spirit of hope in the 1970s in Turkey. Kemal's ethnographic fieldwork with street children criticized the demotion of children to a less-than-human status when present among adu…
Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in “Asiatic Turkey”
This paper discusses the use of visual representations or photographic descriptions by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as proofs of their proselytizing efforts. The analysis is limited to the American missionaries of the "Asiatic Turkey Mission", namely Western Turkey Mission (established in 1819), Central Turkey Mission (1847) and Eastern Turkey Mission (1836), whose proselytizing efforts cent…
Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During World War I
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La jeunesse ottomane, enjeu des luttes nationales (1914-1919)
À partir du milieu du XIX e siècle et surtout pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, les enfants furent un des enjeux de l'agitation nationaliste, sociale et religieuse. La structure multireligieuse, multiethnique, multilingue de l'Empire ottoman et la désunion de l'idée de nation ont compliqué ce que les enfants ottomans représentaient. Des combats de rue aux organisations de scoutisme, des campagnes de « protection de l'enfance » à l'ouverture d'…
The Armenians in modern Turkey: Post-genocide society, politics and history
A certain A. H. asked the following question in the newspaper Aysor (Today) in 1947: We, Armenians of Istanbul, what do we look like? What do we look like as a community of 50,000 people? What kind
Avner Giladi. Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
Avner Giladi is among the first to treat religious, legal, and philosophical Islamic texts from a historical, sociological, and even psychological perspective in order to better understand family, women, and gender relations in Muslim societies. His previous works on medieval Islamic views on breastfeeding (Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications [1999]) and the concept of childhood i…
Control over Life, Control over Body: Female suicide in early republican Turkey
This article examines the growing concern about female suicide in early republican Turkey. It shows that debates about modernisation intersected in various and complex ways with the scientific and more popular discourse about female suicide. Informed by the work of, amongst others, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Rosi Braidotti, it argues that the women who committed suicide exerted an agency which the new regime denied them and that it was large…
Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East
Journal Article Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East Get access Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East. By Barbara Reeves-Ellington. Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. 232pp. $24.95. Nazan Maksudyan Nazan Maksudyan 1Istanbul Kemerburgaz UniversityIstanbul, Turkey *[email protected] Sea…
State ‘parenthood’ and vocational orphanages ( islâhhanes ): Transformation of urbanity and family life
Ottoman urban reform policies not only targeted the rehabilitation and rebuilding of provinces, cities, streets, and squares; they also aspired to refashion the inhabitants of urban spaces. Vocational orphanages (ıslâhhanes) of the latter half of the nineteenth century were, in that respect, instrumental in removing minor vagrants, beggars, and street children from urban areas according to redefined borders of urban security and visibility and in…
Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages ( Islahhanes ) and Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space
This paper analyzes the large network of Ottoman vocational orphanages ( ıslahhane s) opened from the 1860s onward in the provincial centers of the Ottoman Empire as a new educational and disciplinary institution for orphan, destitute, and poor children. I argue that ıslahhane s embodied new conceptualizations of order/disorder, obedience/disobedience, security/danger, and progress/decline in the urban space. In opening these institutions, Ottoma…
François Georgeon. Sous le Signe des Réformes: État et Société, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Turquie Kémaliste (1789-1939), İstanbul: Les Éditions Isis, 2009, 432 pages
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Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 , by Tara Zahra
The fight over nobody's children: Religion, nationality and citizenship of foundlings in the late Ottoman Empire
In the late nineteenth century, the religion, nationality, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain over which much effort was spent by local authorities, foreign missionaries, religious and civil leaders of the communities, municipalities, the police force, and the central state. Relying on Ottoman and French archival sources, together with periodicals and contemporary literature, this paper discerns the elevated politica…
François Ceorgeon and Klaus Kreiser, Enfance et Jeunesse dans le Monde Musulman / Childhood and Youth in the Muslim World, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007
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Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire
This paper addresses the complex and contradictory framing of youthful female sexuality, personified in the figure of foster-daughters (beslemes), in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire. Beslemes were both sexually exploited and attempted to be disciplined under the critical gaze of the upper classes and the state, since they disturbed the accepted rules and limits of sexual agency as sexually active unwed adolescent girls. They were marginaliz…
The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism
As a new nation state founded in 1923 on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey faced the need to establish a new national identity and ideology. Recognizing the multiple faces of Turkish nationalism, this article explores how Kemalist conceptions of national identity were not limited to civic nationalist ideologies, but incorporated racist ascriptions of ethnic nationalism as well. Based on the research and publications of schol…
Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 1975
In 1975, the world-famous novelist Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015) undertook a series of journalistic interviews with street children in Istanbul. The series, entitled "Children Are Human" (Çocuklar İnsandır), reflects the author's rebellious attitude as well as the revolutionary spirit of hope in the 1970s in Turkey. Kemal's ethnographic fieldwork with street children criticized the demotion of children to a less-than-human status when present among adu…
Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages ( Islahhanes ) and Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space
This paper analyzes the large network of Ottoman vocational orphanages ( ıslahhane s) opened from the 1860s onward in the provincial centers of the Ottoman Empire as a new educational and disciplinary institution for orphan, destitute, and poor children. I argue that ıslahhane s embodied new conceptualizations of order/disorder, obedience/disobedience, security/danger, and progress/decline in the urban space. In opening these institutions, Ottoma…
The fight over nobody's children: Religion, nationality and citizenship of foundlings in the late Ottoman Empire
In the late nineteenth century, the religion, nationality, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain over which much effort was spent by local authorities, foreign missionaries, religious and civil leaders of the communities, municipalities, the police force, and the central state. Relying on Ottoman and French archival sources, together with periodicals and contemporary literature, this paper discerns the elevated politica…
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s
This article situates the trajectory of the academic life of Seniha Tunakan (1908–2000) within the development of anthropology as a scientific discipline in Turkey and its transnational connections to Europe during the interwar period and up until the second half of the 20th century. Relying on the archives of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes in Germany, a…
La jeunesse ottomane, enjeu des luttes nationales (1914-1919)
À partir du milieu du XIX e siècle et surtout pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, les enfants furent un des enjeux de l'agitation nationaliste, sociale et religieuse. La structure multireligieuse, multiethnique, multilingue de l'Empire ottoman et la désunion de l'idée de nation ont compliqué ce que les enfants ottomans représentaient. Des combats de rue aux organisations de scoutisme, des campagnes de « protection de l'enfance » à l'ouverture d'…
The Turkish Review of Anthropology and the Racist Face of Turkish Nationalism
As a new nation state founded in 1923 on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey faced the need to establish a new national identity and ideology. Recognizing the multiple faces of Turkish nationalism, this article explores how Kemalist conceptions of national identity were not limited to civic nationalist ideologies, but incorporated racist ascriptions of ethnic nationalism as well. Based on the research and publications of schol…
François Ceorgeon and Klaus Kreiser, Enfance et Jeunesse dans le Monde Musulman / Childhood and Youth in the Muslim World, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2007
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Foster-Daughter or Servant, Charity or Abuse: Beslemes in the Late Ottoman Empire
This paper addresses the complex and contradictory framing of youthful female sexuality, personified in the figure of foster-daughters (beslemes), in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire. Beslemes were both sexually exploited and attempted to be disciplined under the critical gaze of the upper classes and the state, since they disturbed the accepted rules and limits of sexual agency as sexually active unwed adolescent girls. They were marginaliz…
The fight over nobody's children: Religion, nationality and citizenship of foundlings in the late Ottoman Empire
In the late nineteenth century, the religion, nationality, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain over which much effort was spent by local authorities, foreign missionaries, religious and civil leaders of the communities, municipalities, the police force, and the central state. Relying on Ottoman and French archival sources, together with periodicals and contemporary literature, this paper discerns the elevated politica…
François Georgeon. Sous le Signe des Réformes: État et Société, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Turquie Kémaliste (1789-1939), İstanbul: Les Éditions Isis, 2009, 432 pages
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 , by Tara Zahra
State ‘parenthood’ and vocational orphanages ( islâhhanes ): Transformation of urbanity and family life
Ottoman urban reform policies not only targeted the rehabilitation and rebuilding of provinces, cities, streets, and squares; they also aspired to refashion the inhabitants of urban spaces. Vocational orphanages (ıslâhhanes) of the latter half of the nineteenth century were, in that respect, instrumental in removing minor vagrants, beggars, and street children from urban areas according to redefined borders of urban security and visibility and in…
Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages ( Islahhanes ) and Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space
This paper analyzes the large network of Ottoman vocational orphanages ( ıslahhane s) opened from the 1860s onward in the provincial centers of the Ottoman Empire as a new educational and disciplinary institution for orphan, destitute, and poor children. I argue that ıslahhane s embodied new conceptualizations of order/disorder, obedience/disobedience, security/danger, and progress/decline in the urban space. In opening these institutions, Ottoma…
Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East
Journal Article Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East Get access Domestic Frontiers: Gender, Reform, and American Interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East. By Barbara Reeves-Ellington. Amherst and Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. 232pp. $24.95. Nazan Maksudyan Nazan Maksudyan 1Istanbul Kemerburgaz UniversityIstanbul, Turkey *[email protected] Sea…
Control over Life, Control over Body: Female suicide in early republican Turkey
This article examines the growing concern about female suicide in early republican Turkey. It shows that debates about modernisation intersected in various and complex ways with the scientific and more popular discourse about female suicide. Informed by the work of, amongst others, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Rosi Braidotti, it argues that the women who committed suicide exerted an agency which the new regime denied them and that it was large…
The Armenians in modern Turkey: Post-genocide society, politics and history
A certain A. H. asked the following question in the newspaper Aysor (Today) in 1947: We, Armenians of Istanbul, what do we look like? What do we look like as a community of 50,000 people? What kind
Avner Giladi. Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East
Avner Giladi is among the first to treat religious, legal, and philosophical Islamic texts from a historical, sociological, and even psychological perspective in order to better understand family, women, and gender relations in Muslim societies. His previous works on medieval Islamic views on breastfeeding (Infants, Parents and Wet Nurses: Medieval Islamic Views on Breastfeeding and Their Social Implications [1999]) and the concept of childhood i…
La jeunesse ottomane, enjeu des luttes nationales (1914-1919)
À partir du milieu du XIX e siècle et surtout pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, les enfants furent un des enjeux de l'agitation nationaliste, sociale et religieuse. La structure multireligieuse, multiethnique, multilingue de l'Empire ottoman et la désunion de l'idée de nation ont compliqué ce que les enfants ottomans représentaient. Des combats de rue aux organisations de scoutisme, des campagnes de « protection de l'enfance » à l'ouverture d'…
Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During World War I
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in “Asiatic Turkey”
This paper discusses the use of visual representations or photographic descriptions by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as proofs of their proselytizing efforts. The analysis is limited to the American missionaries of the "Asiatic Turkey Mission", namely Western Turkey Mission (established in 1819), Central Turkey Mission (1847) and Eastern Turkey Mission (1836), whose proselytizing efforts cent…
Revolution is the Equality of Children and Adults: Yaşar Kemal Interviews Street Children, 1975
In 1975, the world-famous novelist Yaşar Kemal (1923-2015) undertook a series of journalistic interviews with street children in Istanbul. The series, entitled "Children Are Human" (Çocuklar İnsandır), reflects the author's rebellious attitude as well as the revolutionary spirit of hope in the 1970s in Turkey. Kemal's ethnographic fieldwork with street children criticized the demotion of children to a less-than-human status when present among adu…
Embracing embodiedness, desire and failure: Women’s fluid gender performances in Sevgi Soysal’s oeuvre from the 1960s
The ‘women’s liberation’ of the global 1960s did not entail a full range of women’s rights, feminist politics and sexual freedoms in Turkey. On the contrary, the Turkish 1960s were characterised by a patriarchal heteronormative order that imprisoned women in a passive and essentially asexual identity and denied them control over their bodies. In Turkey, women’s emancipation was postponed. At the same time, the 1960s offered a juncture of literary…
Racial anthropology in Turkey and transnational entanglements in the making of scientific knowledge: Seniha Tunakan’s academic trajectory, 1930s–1970s
This article situates the trajectory of the academic life of Seniha Tunakan (1908–2000) within the development of anthropology as a scientific discipline in Turkey and its transnational connections to Europe during the interwar period and up until the second half of the 20th century. Relying on the archives of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes in Germany, a…
The fall of a city: Refugees, exodus and exile in Ernest Hemingway’s Istanbul, 1922
Ernest Hemingway arrived in Istanbul on 30 September 1922 to cover the end of the Greek–Turkish War for the Toronto Star. From late October to mid-November 1922, Hemingway wrote 20 articles about the last days of the war and the re-constellation of political legitimacy in the region. There are four distinguishing features of Hemingway’s reports from Constantinople. First, they provided an eloquent depiction of the city, suggesting the charm and s…
François Georgeon , Douze essais sur l’histoire de l’empire Ottoman aux XIXe–XXe Siècles. Istanbul: Les Éditions Isis, 2022, 224 pages
International audience
Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean . By Andreas Guidi
International audience
Beyond Borders and Binaries: Young Ottoman Women’s Experiments with Gender, Body, and Sexuality in Germany During World War I
In contrast to their male counterparts in apprenticeships, secondary education and technical training, there is a gap in scholarship on the education of (Muslim, unmarried) Ottoman women in Germany during the First World War as part of an educational collaboration between two empires. This article presents a wealth of new insights into the lives of this group of young women, based on research into official documentation from the Ottoman Prime Min…
The genocidal disruption of Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s (1862–1942) lifework: A biographical approach to mass violence and indigenous knowledge production
International audience
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann's exile years in Turkey, 1935-1950: A Biographical and Gendered Approach to Migration History
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), a pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to hand in their official resignations after being declared as ‘Jews’ according to the laws of 1933 and 1935. Albert Eckstein accepted the offer of the Turkish government to become the head of the pediatric clinic of Ankara Hospital. Relying on a biographical approach and utilizing ego-documents, such as memoirs, letters, and travelog…
Exile and fieldwork as liminal conditions: Leonore Kosswig's life and research in Turkey, 1937-1973
This paper looks into the life and ethnographic work of Leonore Kosswig (1904–1973), who lived in Turkey as a German exile from 1937 until her death in 1973. While her husband, Curt Kosswig was invited to Istanbul University as a full professor, Leonore had no institutional affiliation. However, she traveled with her husband around Anatolia and joined his fieldwork, during which she developed an interest in local customs and the daily life of vil…
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