Image:LeylaNeyzi.jpg '''Leyla Neyzi''', (born July_29, 1961) is a Turkish academician (Anthropologist/Sociologist/Historian) who is currently working in Sabancı_University, Istanbul. == Biography == Born in Istanbul, Turkey, the daughter of Ali_Neyzi, a Businessman and Writer, and Olcay_Neyzi, a pediatrician. She studied Anthropology at Stanford_University, (B.A. 1982) and Development_Sociology at Cornell_University (Ph.D. 1991). She worked as an assistant professor at Bosphorus_University, (1992-1994) and as the Oral History Project Director, Economic and Social History Foundation (1995-1996). She currently teaches Anthropology at Sabancı_University. A notable series of studies by Leyla Neyzi has been on the basis of diaries of Yaşar_Paker, who was issued from the tiny Jewish community of early-20th_century Ankara, and who had been enrolled in the Labor Battalions in Turkey twice, the first time during the Greco-Turkish_War_(1919-1922) and the second time during the Second_World_War to which Turkey did not take part. One of these studies is published in the Jewish_Social_Studies in Fall 2005Strong as Steel, Fragile as a Rose: A Turkish Jewish Witness to the Twentieth Century Leyla Neyzi paper on the basis of Yaşar Paker's diary published in the Jewish_Social_Studies in Fall 2005 == Awards == * Malcolm_Kerr Dissertation Award, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1992. *Research Award, Population Council Middle East Awards Program, 1998-1999 (Family History, Generation and Identity in Turkey). *Research Award, Sabanci_University, 2003-2004, (An Oral History of the Neighborhood of Teşvikiye). *Visiting Scholar, Oxford_University Programme on Contemporary Turkey and St._Antony's_College, Senior Associate Member, 2004. ==External links== *Personal page in Sabancı University web site == References ==
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