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

ASOR scholars were involved in the long-term excavation at Sardis, in western Türkiye.

During the Suez conflict in 1956, staff were evacuated from the Jerusalem School but returned shortly thereafter.

ASOR’s second center, the Baghdad School, is founded.

The Bulletin of ASOR (BASOR) publishes its first volume as an interdisciplinary English-language forum for scholars worldwide in subjects relating to the archaeology and history of the ancient [...]

Maarav joins the journals program of the University of Chicago Press and ASOR.

The Biblical Archaeologist is renamed Near Eastern Archaeology to reflect the publication’s broader geographic, chronological, and intellectual scope.

ASOR adopts a new logo, the Caananite storage jar, which was chosen as the organization is representative of a wide range of locations.

ASOR’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved changing the organization’s name to the American Society of Overseas Research at its regular winter meeting on December 16, 2020.

ASOR distributes $200,000 in fellowships and grants, the highest amount awarded since the beginning of ASOR.