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.