ASOR has three affiliated overseas research centers, 92 member institutions, and more than 1,500 individual members. We communicate news of the latest research findings through our journals, [...]

Excavations were underway at Samaria with George Reisner at the helm. Reisner introduced his pioneering excavation and recording techniques to Palestinian archaeology, beginning systematic [...]

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 [...]

The Six-Day War in 1967 prompted the evacuation of the Jerusalem school yet again. The war left the Jerusalem School under Israeli control. The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) […]

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 […]