Anna Aleksanyan earned her Ph.D. at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (History Department), Clark University. Her work explores gendered aspects of the Armenian genocide in the experiences of its victimized females (1914-1918). Before starting her Ph.D., she worked at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute as a researcher for seven years. Aleksanyan received her BA and MA in History at Yerevan State University. From the fall of 2019 to the fall of 2022, she worked as an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Armenia. She has published in academic journals and non-academic publications in Armenian, English, Russian, and Turkish. She was responsible for categorizing and indexing Armenian language materials of the Krikor Guerguerian Online Archive. Her latest article is "The Victims of “Safety”: The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon" in Thomas Kühne, Mary Jane Rein and Marc A. Mamigonian, Documenting the Armenian Genocide: Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam, (2023). Currently, Aleksanyan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA.