Leyla Neyzi (born July 29, 1961) is a Turkish academic (anthropologist/sociologist/historian) who is currently working in Sabancı University, Istanbul.
After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, she studied Anthropology at Stanford University (BA 1982) and Development Sociology at Cornell University (PhD 1991).
She worked as an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University, (1992–1994) and as the Oral History Project Director, Economic and Social History Foundation (1995–1996).
Leyla Neyzi produced a notable series of studies based on the diaries of Yaşar Paker, who issued from the tiny Jewish community of early 20th century Ankara, and who was twice enrolled in the labor battalions in Turkey, the first time during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) and the second time during the Second World War (in which Turkey did not take part).
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