[1] She studied abroad in 1998 in Madrid where she interned for the director of the Galerîa Metta.
[1] In 2000, Abbaspour designed an educational database of the permanent collection of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) Sweeney Art Gallery.
[1] She earned a master's degree in art history from UCR in 2001.
[1] Her master's thesis was titled, Trans-national, cultural, and corporeal spaces: the territory of the body in the artwork of Shirin Neshat and Mona Hatoum.
[1] She earned a M.Phil in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center.