Prof. Dr. Nazan Maksudyan’s Ottoman Children and Youth During World War I (Syracuse University Press, 2019) has won the first place prize for the The Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) 2020 book award. 

In their decision letter, the members of the committee, Leyla Neyzi, Nancy L. Stockdale, and Shahram Khosravi made the following praise:

"All committee members agreed that Nazan Maksudyan’s book was impeccably written, highly readable, without the jargon that often accompanies academic tomes, providing both a new approach to the study of children and a new approach to working in and interpreting archives. This is simply a wonderful book that will be of interest not only to academics working on the Middle East but to a wide range of scholars across disciplines and regions with an interest in the study of children and childhood."