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Knar Abrahamyan is an Assistant Professor of Music at Columbia University, specializing in Music Theory. Her research critically analyzes the historical and political intersections of cultural production under Soviet rule.
- PhD in Music Theory, Certificate in Environmental Humanities | Yale University | 2022
- MM in Music Theory | Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music | 2015
- MM in Piano Performance | Lee University | 2013
- BM in Piano Performance & BA in Communication Studies | Lee University | 2012
Her scholarship focuses on Soviet Armenia and Kazakhstan, examining opera as a colonial tool for cultural modernization. She integrates posthumanism, sound studies, and environmental humanities to explore themes of difference and reconciliation.
Abrahamyan has received prestigious awards including the Fulbright Research Fellowship, Metropolitan Opera Education Fellowship, and ARISC Research Fellowship. She founded the Hadrut Educational Summer Camp (funded by Tufenkian Foundation and Yale’s Tsai Center) to address educational equity in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Her research bridges Slavic studies, postcolonial theory, and musicology, advocating for humanistic inquiry as a means to mitigate intercultural hostility.
