Abbaspour earned with a B.A. in studio art and art history from
Scripps College in 1999. In 2000, Abbaspour designed an educational database of the permanent collection of the
University of California, Riverside (UCR) Sweeney Art Gallery. Abbaspour was an assistant curator, museum writer, and director of public relations at the
UCR/California Museum of Photography. In August 2023, she was named the Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and head of the
Harvard Art Museums’ division of modern and contemporary art. She begins the role on September 11. == References ==