Victoria ABRAHAMYAN
Postdoctorante
Uni Philosophes, 301
Courriel
Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire globale et transnationale en Europe et au Moyen-Orient, l’histoire des deux guerres mondiales, la violence, l’impérialisme et le colonialisme, la science et la production de connaissances. Elle a publié des articles dans des revues de premier plan, telles que le Journal of Migration History et Contemporary Levant, et a contribué à plusieurs chapitres dans des ouvrages collectifs. Elle travaille actuellement sur sa première monographie, provisoirement intitulée Pawns in a Great Game: Re-claiming Armenian Refugees in French Mandatory Syria, 1918-1946.
Victoria Abrahamyan is a postdoctoral researcher at Maison d’Histoire of the University of Geneva, since February 2024, working for a research project funded by the SNSF, titled Mass Death, Science and Medicine: Handling the Corpses of War in Modern Europe (1850-1960).
She received her PhD in contemporary history in 2023 from the University of Neuchâtel, where she was part of the ERC funded research titled Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Trans-border Spaces, Circulations, Frontier Effects and State Formation, 1920-1946, led by Professor Jordi Tejel. She received her MA and BA in Middle Eastern Studies in 2008 from the Yerevan State University and was an exchange student at the Arabic Teaching Institute in Damascus, Syria.
Her research interests lie in the field of the global and transnational history, Europe and Middle East, history of the two World Wars, violence, imperalism and colonialism, science and knowledge production. She has published articles in leading journals, such as Journal of Migration History, Contemporary Levant and contributed chapters to several collective book projects. Currently she is working on her first monograph, provisionally titled Pawns in a Great Game: Re-claiming Armenian Refugees in French Mandatory Syria, 1918-1946.