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Dr. Victoria Abrahamyan is a post-doctoral research fellow at Maison d’Histoire at the University of Geneva.
She received her PhD in contemporary history from the University of Neuchâtel. Her research focuses on the Ottoman Empire, the modern Middle East, USSR and the Caucasus, from the late 19th century through the interwar period. Her research interests include World War I, imperalism, colonialism, nationalism, violence, forced displacement, refugees, state formation, and subaltern agency.
Dr. Abrahamyan has published extensively in leading journals, including Journal of Contemporary Levant and Journal of Migration History and contributed several book chapters. She is currently working on her first monograph, provisionally entitled, Armenian Refugees in French Mandate Syria: Statelessness and Nation-Building in the Middle East under contract with Bloomsbury (I.B. Tauris).
Expertise
Mass violence, Armenian Genocide, forced displacement, Western and Soviet competition in the Middle East and the Caucasus, nationalism and state-formation.