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Robert Sukiasyan

Postdoctoral Fellow

E-mail: robertsukiasyan@humnet.ucla.edu Office: 11-364 Bunche Hall

Robert Sukiasyan is a historian specializing in genocidal deportations, with a particular focus on the Armenian Genocide, as well as memory studies, oral history, survivor testimonies, cartography, and digital humanities. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, an M.A. in International Relations/Genocide Studies from Yerevan State University, and a B.A. in Art History from Yerevan State University.

Dr. Sukiasyan was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA (2021–2022) and a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (2021–2022). Since 2023, he has been teaching the course The Armenian Genocide at the American University of Armenia.

He was a researcher at the Department of Genocide studies at the Institute for Armenian Studies at the Yerevan State University and worked as an Armenian Genocide Collection Indexer at the USC Shoah Foundation. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and volumes such as the Journal of Genocide Studies, Ēǰmiatsin amsagir, Handes Amsorya, and Herald of the Social Sciences, as well as in an edited volume “Microhistories in Armenian Studies” published by The Press at California State University, Fresno.

Publications

Articles

In Armenian

“The State Economic Policy Applied against Armenians in Sebastia during the Years 1913–1915,” Gitakan Artsakh, 1, 2 (2019), pp. 436–444.
“Gendarmes’ Criminal Inaction on the Kötü han–Hasançelebi–Hekimhan Route,” Ēǰmiatsin amsagir, 4 (2019), pp. 135–142.
“The Deportations of Sebastia in 1915: A Theoretical Overview,” Ēǰmiatsin amsagir, 3 (2019), pp. 131–145.
“The Dossier in the Nubarian Library on ‘The Massacres and Deportations of Sebastia’,” Herald of the Social Sciences, 1, 655 (2019), pp. 46–68.
“The Murder of Vardabet Sahak Odasbashyan in the Light of Ottoman and Armenian Sources,” Handes Amsorya, 133 (2019), pp. 455–470.
“Hasançelebi: A Station on the Deportation Route of Sebastia,” Journal of Genocide Studies, 6, 2 (2018), pp. 53–69.
“Kötü Khan: A Station on the Deportation Route of Sebastia,” Journal of Genocide Studies, 6, 1 (2018), pp. 44–61.

In English

“Hasanchelebi: A Killing Station for Armenian Men on the Sebastia Deportation Routes,” International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 9, 2 (2024), pp. 62–78.
“A Scheme for Extortion and Targeted Elimination of Surviving Sivas/Sepastia Armenian Community Leaders in the Summer of 1915,” in [Microhistories in Armenian Studies], The Press at California State University, Fresno, 2025, pp. 143–164.