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Leyla Neyzi is a Turkish academician (Anthropologist, Sociologist, and Historian), who is currently a professor at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, she studied anthropology at Stanford University, and earned her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from City University of New York in 1986, and her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University in 1991. She worked as assistant professor at Bosphorus University and as the Oral History Project Director, at Economic and Social History Foundation. She currently teaches Anthropology at Sabanchi University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her interests are Oral history, memory studies, European and Middle Eastern ethnography, nationalism and minorities, youth and social movements. The Turkish audio clip included in this episode is from an interview with Şilan. Click here to listen to her complete interview (with English subtitles): http://www.gencleranlatiyor.org/stati