ASOR changes its name to the American Society for Overseas Research while retaining the acronym ASOR, to better reflect its organizational representation.

ASOR’s arrangements for courtesy use of office space at Johns Hopkins were nearing an end. President Meyers began negotiations with Boston University, and by mid-July 1996, Executive [...]

In 1987, P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. became President of ASOR. A few years earlier, McCarter had been appointed to the distinguished position of William Foxwell Albright Professor of Biblical and […]

James A. Sauer was elected as ASOR’s eighth president in 1982. After assuming the presidency in July 1982, Sauer took immediate action to sustain the momentum in programming that former [...]

ASOR’s operations move to the U.S. Program activities also continued in Jerusalem at the newly named W. F. Albright Institute; but the focus was radically altered. Casey was succeeded as [...]

In 1965, the ASOR presidency and leadership in the U.S. passed from the hands of A. Henry Detweiler to G. Ernest Wright of Harvard. The new ASOR office was located […]

Under Albright’s leadership, archaeological and other activities expanded, and he secured the school’s future in ways that had not been possible before. In 1922, he led the [...]

In 1908, another move was made to a house opposite the German Archaeological Institute. In 1909, Director Robert Harper purchased land for the building in Jerusalem. He purchased a vacant [...]

In 1906, under Annual Director Benjamin Bacon, the school’s headquarters were moved outside the Old City to 6 Ethiopia Street. Image: Doorway of house at 6 Ethiopia Street, Jaffa.

The Baghdad School closes due to political tensions and becomes the Committee on Mesopotamian Civilization.